History questions

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sorry for my English is not very good, but I have some questions:
1.What is the history of Blockly and who their developers?
2.What was the influence and important applications which have influenced you?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by greysyt...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 11:08

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1.What is the history of Blockly and who their developers?

Blockly started at Google three years ago as a replacement front-end for App 
Inventor.  App Inventor was using a Java-based blocks UI that was difficult to 
install and had bugs:
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/mess.png
Blockly grew into an open source editor that anyone can use and contribute to.  
Its primary developers are still at Google.

2.What was the influence and important applications which have influenced you?

App Inventor was obviously the most influential, since the original goal was to 
create a web-based drop-in replacement for their UI.  A significant but less 
obvious influence was Google Docs.  Having previously worked on that codebase 
for several years, Blockly benefited from JavaScript experience and 
internationalization lessons learned from developing Google Docs.

If you haven't already read it, I'd recommend this page:
http://code.google.com/p/blockly/wiki/FAQHighLevel

Original comment by neil.fra...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 11:26

• Changed state: Done

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Some of the technical history of Blockly may be seen in this video:
http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2012/svgopen/03-2_tuesday?doi=10.3930/
ETHZ/AV-fada03b4-6079-464d-861e-d473cad4ab55&autostart=true

Original comment by neil.fra...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 11:32

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Neil, why not add these to the faq?

Original comment by Ellen.Sp...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 11:54