With a Blockly interface (a visual coding tool), coding newbies will learn the basics until they feel confident enough to take it to the next level, which is straight-up JavaScript.

“One of the goals for Blockly is to generate readable code — whether it be JavaScript, Dart, Python, or some other language — which the user can continue working with once they out-grow the ...

Blockly looks strikingly similar to Scratch, in fact, except it can export the code blocks or show you the code beneath in JavaScript, Dart, Python, and XML. It's a learning tool that both kids ...

Blockly is a successor to Google’s App Inventor, itself inspired by MIT’s Scratch, but it has some new features, like the option to export your blocks as real code.

Later will come Blockly. And longer term, the company tells me that the plan is to open up Ozobot’s controls to work with a variety of computing languages.

Blockly Games is an open-source Google project that was created to encourage tomorrow’s programmers, according to Google. The games are designed to be self-paced and self-teaching.