In the 1960s, Seymour Papert advocated that all children should learn
computer programming. Today, finally, millions of students are learning it,
but there is a lot of work to be done to truly democratize this new literacy.
Project Bloks is a research project with the goal of creating a platform to
enable designers to create new and creative tangible coding languages
and kits for children. Ultimately we want to offer a powerful and open
hardware and software platform that makes it easy to invent novel ways
for children to learn how to code, using new form factors, metaphors, and
knowledge domains.