Blockly Developer Summit 2019: MakeCode Block Design

A Google TechTalk, 2019/10/11, presented by Jacqueline Russell & Shannon Kao ABSTRACT: The MakeCode team has created over 900 distinct blocks for a range of block coding applications. Jacqueline and Shannon talk through the seven design principles they use for MakeCode and how to apply them when creating blocks for new applications. Slides: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AC%2DkESToIXzHxGs&cid=CFC5A1C21413D8F9&id=CFC5A1C21413D8F9%211265&parId=CFC5A1C21413D8F9%211263&o=OneUp More about the Summit: https://sites.google.com/corp/view/blockly-user-summit-2019/agenda About the speakers: Jacqueline Russell is the Program Manager for Microsoft MakeCode. Jacqueline has worked at Microsoft since 2005 in various groups focused on technology in education. She plays squash with her teammates, snowboards in the winter, and does regular user testing with her kids. Shannon is a software engineer for Microsoft MakeCode. She's been with MakeCode for six months, and Microsoft for a year and a half before that as a web developer. In her free time she hikes (slowly), draws (infrequently), and sleeps (proficiently).