Is there any plans to have support of educational version?
BondarenkoArtur opened this issue · 1 comments
👋 Thank you for improving and supporting amazing mod!
I've seen that some teachers are using ComputerCraftEdu as a platform for teaching kids how to write the code. It looks pretty straight forward and now I think each kid played Minecraft at least once 😅
So are there any plans for supporting that mod with CC:T or at least Visual Editor that I will attach below?
I would definitely love to see a visual editor for ComputerCraft (and generally make CC more accessible for education), but sadly it's something I'm unlikely to work on myself.
The original source of CCEdu was never released (dan200/ComputerCraft#530 and this forum post go into a bit more detail), and so the editor would have to be reimplemented from scratch.
Some chuntering about implementation, can be ignored
Given there's less of a base to build on, I'd probably want to make some tweaks to (hopefully) make it a little more friendly. While going full Scratch/Blockly probably wouldn't be right, it would be nice to make it easier to write code without getting bogged down by Lua's syntax (for instance, having to add do/end).
The problem with all of this is that, unlike TeacherGaming (the original developers), I don't really have any background in education, nor connections to teachers. This makes it much harder to test any of this, and see what changes actually help people learn.
The other big issue is that Mojang/Microsoft now have their own CCEdu-like feature in the guise of MCEdu's agent. It's definitely hard to know what CC would do to distinguish itself.
TLDR: Definitely open to making CC more accessible to new programmers and education (I know docs need a lot of work, but all suggestions are welcome!), but a visual editor is probably out of scope for now.