IMHO, programming is learn logical thinking, calculation and flow control.

For other features, beginner may call the API (black box),
unless they want to understand how it work, or create themselves.

Tools are keeping improve, learn programming become easier.

Take a look :

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

Saw my nephew (8 years old) doing this by reading tutorial.

https://www.create-learn.us/blog/scratch-po...orial-for-kids/

You may also try the online demo at
Pong Starter by Scratchteam


So i tried to do in html + js (about 240 lines)
Attach with screen capture gif.





This post has been edited by flashang: Feb 19 2022, 05:19 PM

Nice html+js demo, the game become faster and faster...

I thought Malaysian web developers mostly do database querying, but am amazed coder like you can make game with javascript. 240 lines not long, wonder if you make your code open-source?

Because i use other material from web for this coding practice,
i have to check the license (Terms of Use) before decide for next action.

There are quite a few JS based games out there. HTML + CSS + JS gives you all the building blocks you need to build a game.

https://mk.mgechev.com/

Have fun

This is an old website, which did not use html5.

100 JavaScript games to play online !

but the concept are similar, just use different method to control graphics.

I think this is called block-based coding, that's why it is called "Blockly".

Oi. Stop dissing Malaysian coders.

nice learning tool

but i think better to work with an online course and code along with the instructor

Language is just a tool.
A lot of people are able to do some simple game such as tic-tac-toe, pong, ...
with either python, js, c, c#, c++, ... any language,
just convert the logic, syntax and choose appropriate display output.

Migrate from block-coding "scratch" to python are introduced by some school.





This post has been edited by flashang: Sep 26 2022, 05:12 PM

Can't agree more. Choose the best tool for the job, but no harm to go crazy

Here's an example: AES-128 implementation... in scratch!

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1467174256677212164

Man, it is terrific!

Other popular block programming: Scratch & ScratchJr, Snap