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At work we built a BI tool around Scratch (Blockly) back in 2013. It’s still seeing daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif

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This is the coolest thing I have seen this week! Is the program open sourced?

I firmly believe Scratch should be taught at university level for business students. We studied C, C++, VB and MS Access. We didn't understand crap, nor the instructors had any interest in teaching that crap.

Scratch is a wonderful tool for any people to dip their toes in programming. And stuff like this makes me double down on this idea. Scratch should be the first thing to be taught to teach programming regardless of education level. BI tool and database interaction is the perfect and practical application of Scratch.

Please post this gif as a show hn, so it gets some attention and maybe someone builds on top of this idea!

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 (not Show HN, but as it is not that new I thought a retrospective blog post would be more interesting)

Thank you! It is a nice article. When I saw it on the frontpage I went to my comments to check whether it was submitted by you or someone else.

Blockly is great. We were able to deploy it as an interface for managing complex business rule configuration files, for non-cs types.

Cool! It's like a homebrewed alternative to Google Data Studio.

This is genuinely amazing - I'd love to give it a try. Any chance any of the work your team put into it is open source?

This was actually built between 2012-2013 - it is quite a tangle of old and rusty (but very reliable) PHP code and IE9-era, 'jQuery-esque' JavaScript. Realistically this can't be usefully made open source (and if it were it would probably have to be rewritten in order to be more generally useful). That said I would be very interested in an open source re-implementation of this using modern techniques!

Please let us know if you decide to open source it! Very cool :)

this is pretty amazing

Very cool

Awesome!

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