Visual Coding

Visual programming languages are essential for children to learn how to make a computer or robot fulfil a task. A programmed machine does exactly what you told it to do – for beginners, this is often not what they expected. That’s why one has introduced visual languages. Unlike with text-based ones, one writes programs by putting pre-defined blocks in a certain order, thus defining the code.

Here, I told a robot to rotate. But the code is not yet complete! The last block needs to be pushed below the loop to be interpreted as command. Moving the mouse pushes the block upwards, connecting gears in the computer behind the desk. Now, the power supply is connected to the robot and the code can be executed.

As an easter egg (somehow important in informatics), one can open the computer’s rear, unveiling a “STEM”. Also, on the keyboard, these letters are pushed.

The model consists of 249 parts (all are existing in the used colors except of part 27448) and measures 12 x 12 x 10 studs.