Blockly also has built-in definitions for various common programming structures like loops, conditional statements, and arithmetic operations. Conceivably, these could allow users to define their own ...

“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 ...

Google wants to encourage parents to get their kids involved in the Blockly games so they can introduce them to programming and promising future careers.

Blockly is accessible and JavaScript is widely used, so it seems that ThoughtSTEM may have hit the sweet note when it comes to teaching code in a cool and interesting way.

From Google's site, you can translate Blockly applications into existing languages, including Javascript; Dart, Google new take on Javascript, and Python.

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.