Might want to check MIT's OpenBlocks ( http://education.mit.edu/openblocks ), which is related to Scratch (listed as inspiration by Waterbear) and includes code from StarLogo (slcodeblocks) (also listed as inspiration) and is being refactored "to make the code more amenable to inclusion to other projects". One of the recent uses of OpenBlocks was Google's AppInventor.
Kudos to the Waterbear author! Loved to see it done with JS, HTML5 and CSS3. One less thing in my list of "things that I want to see in the world but may have to build it myself". Watching the repo already! :)
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Thats very cool! The Kinect video with regions reminds me of my uni undergrad final year project (except that your region stuff is much cooler than ours was - cheaper too): http://dublindan.posterous.com/things-ive-worked-on-1
There is a demo. There are a number of controls on the top right, and one is labeled "Demos", though there is only one demo at the moment, and it doesn't seem complete. I suspect this is still very much a work in progress. I seriously doubt the author intended for it to be shown.
My experience exactly. I tried writing my own script and it didn't work, and then I loaded the demo script and it didn't work. I think a screencast would be nice even if it never gets broken again.
wow that looks brilliant (from what I can see), do you think its at all useful to people that actually know javascript? or is it more of a tool for those that dont/are learning?
From the github page, the intention is that it's an introductory educational programming tool, that provides a concrete visual syntax that's easier for kids to get to grips with than the usual textual one.
Kudos to the Waterbear author! Loved to see it done with JS, HTML5 and CSS3. One less thing in my list of "things that I want to see in the world but may have to build it myself". Watching the repo already! :)