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Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code - the company's site for hosting open source software - the new language is called Google Blockly, and it's reminiscent of Scratch, a platform developed at MIT that seeks to turn even young children into programmers. Like Scratch, Blockly lets you build applications by piecing together small graphical objects in much the same way you'd piece together Legos. Each visual object is also a code object - a variable or a counter or an "if-then" statement or the like - and as you piece them to together, you create simple functions. And as you piece the functions together, you create entire applications - say, a game where you guide a tiny figurine through a maze.

"Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming editor. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required."

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming editor. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

Will be the start of my game design unit, a lead in to Scratch