Block Programmers Unite!!!

[Tom Eng]

Greetings from New Hampshire!

If you are an FTC team, a coach or a mentor and you use the Blocks Programming tool to program your FTC robot, please sound off!

If you are a Blocks Programming tool user, please respond to this thread and tell us your team number, your team name, and if you'd like your geographic region ("New Hampshire", "Beijing", "Sydney", "Hungary", etc.)!

Thanks and welcome aboard!!!

Tom

[FTCteam7026]

7026 JDroids New Jersey

We actually did a NJ STEM Girls workshop on this and taught another team how to code using Block Programming (Oasis also from New Jersey)!

[Tom Eng]

7026 JDroids New Jersey

We actually did a NJ STEM Girls workshop on this and taught another team how to code using Block Programming (Oasis also from New Jersey)!

Awesome! Glad to hear some NJ-ers are on this subforum! Great job with the workshop!

[PIJack]

We are joining a couple other teams from Colorado and switching from App Inventor here in Colorado!

[FTC9988]

9988 CID Iowa

We plan on using this for next year, currently looking for videos and tutorials. Thanks

[Tom Eng]

9988 CID Iowa

We plan on using this for next year, currently looking for videos and tutorials. Thanks

Hi FTC9988.

Here's a link to a tutorial that might be a good place to start:

http://www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resource_library/ftc/2016-2017-season/blocksprogramming-trainingmanual.pdf

Also, I put some material online that includes some materials from an older workshop that we did with the Blocks programming tool in summer of 2016. The screen shots in the docs might be slightly out of date but the material might be helpful to learn how to use the blocks software.

You can access the older training workshop material here:

https://usfirst-my.sharepoint.com/personal/teng_firstinspires_org/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?folderid=106a3a31dad3e4f1b8ceb2546528f5f88&authkey=Ae4zTkElqFeYu7ffINHuyy4

Remember, the NSTA training material was made using an older version of the Blocks software so there might be some slight differences in the user interfaces on the current software.

Welcome aboard!

[FTC9988]

Thanks for the information. I hope people don't min if I ask a ton of questions.

[Nate2019]

3507 Robotheosis from Chicago

We have been using block programming since the begining of the year.

[[email protected]]

We have used the tutorial and we're VERY happy. Works as advertised. Being able to edit code, download it, and run it without all the hassle of the MIT App environment is awesome.

[[email protected]]

Oops. Forgot to tell you who we are. We're team 9762, Radioactive in Naples, Fl. We urge all MIT App users to try the block programming.

[jedgington7880]

7880 Carnivorous Rabbits from Cedar Falls, Iowa. New programming mentor (me) and programming team this year. Decided to give Blocks Programming a shot. So far, seems much easier than the MIT App environment.

I have lots of questions, I look forward to learning how to use this tool.

[lindnergt]

FTC 3749 Bionic Penguins out of Springfield, VA. Coach Gary Lindner experimenting with Blocks.

[FTC9931]

FTC 9931 (this year's name TBD) from Midland, MI is on the Blocks bandwagon now. This looks like a tremendous improvement over the AppInventor/VirtualBox environment, much easier for our young middle school team members to work with. Great stuff, thanks!

[STEM11653]

Hello Everybody! This is team 11653, in Cheyenne, WY. We have used the block programming for two years, and are very excited for this year. Thanks!

[STEM11653]

So, all our issues tend to be programming related, (This is 11653, S.T.E.M again) is this sub-forum meant for all our programming woes? I'll hold off until a reply comes around. Thx