webblocks
Learning and science
programming education
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and impressive, works well on phones
From 2 comments
That's cool, congrats!
geonnave on HNA blog post would be very nice. Given the multitude of options outs there its easy to forget about things like this. Its good that you are generating awareness for it. I was…
asimuvPR on HN
Kids would enjoy it; useful for learning
From 1 comment
Very nice. My kids (9 and 11) would love this, if it wasn't in english, they currently use Scratch or code.org a lot. Any plans to make this available (translatable) in other…
nachtigall on HN
Objections
Editor lacks tab support and mouse input was missing
From 2 comments
Interesting. It would be nice to have tab support in the editor. One thing I noticed was that it took several seconds to construct large shapes like spheres - It might just have…
Retr0spectrum on HNWhy no mouse input?
w-ll on HN
Large shapes like spheres are slow to construct
From 1 comment
Interesting. It would be nice to have tab support in the editor. One thing I noticed was that it took several seconds to construct large shapes like spheres - It might just have…
Retr0spectrum on HN
Shift-mouse look control is awkward
From 1 comment
Whilst the shift-mouse is horrid, I understand the rationale. At least make the cursor stay in the same postion when this is used, otherwise you have to keep releasing shift,…
mobiuscog on HN
Requests
Translation into other languages, e.g. German
From 1 comment
Very nice. My kids (9 and 11) would love this, if it wasn't in english, they currently use Scratch or code.org a lot. Any plans to make this available (translatable) in other…
nachtigall on HN
Mouse click-and-drag look control
From 1 comment
Click and drag to look around (I hate it when WebGL demos monopolize the mouse) would be neat and pretty simple to implement! :-)
Hydraulix989 on HN
Step-through animation of shapes
From 1 comment
Or animate them with step-through?
willvarfar on HN
Questions
What was it built with?
From 1 comment
This is very nice. Mind talking more about what you built it with?
asimuvPR on HN
Why no mouse input?
From 1 comment
Why no mouse input?
w-ll on HN
Alternatives named
Scratch and code.org
From 1 comment
Very nice. My kids (9 and 11) would love this, if it wasn't in english, they currently use Scratch or code.org a lot. Any plans to make this available (translatable) in other…
nachtigall on HN