sugarlabs/musicblocks
Music Blocks -- A musical microworld
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 48 days ago, with 373 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 196% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a visual programming environment for exploring musical and mathematical concepts interactively through audio-visual blocks.
- Integrates music education with programming using an intuitive, browser-based interface that requires no prior coding experience.
- Use for teaching music theory and math concepts to students in an engaging, hands-on manner using visual blocks.
- Use for creating interactive musical compositions and artwork in educational settings or creative workshops.
- Use for developers interested in contributing to open-source educational tools built with vanilla JavaScript and web technologies.
Should you depend on it?
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License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
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From the README
“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” — Monk
“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.” — Leibniz
Music Blocks is a Visual Programming Language and collection of manipulative tools for exploring musical and mathematical concepts in an integrative and entertaining way.
Music Blocks is an interactive Web Application — the interaction is done via basic mouse events like click, right click, click and drag, etc. and keyboard events like hotkey press. The application is audio-visual; it produces graphics, artwork and music. Here are a couple of screenshots to give you an idea of how the application looks like:
Visit the Music Blocks website for a hands on experience: https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org.
Or download Music Blocks from the Google Play Store
Additional background on why we combine music and programming can be found here.
Refer to the following sections to get familiar with this application:
If you are a developer (beginner, experienced, or pro), you are very welcome to participate in the evolution of Music Blocks.
Refer to the following sections to get an idea:
Refer to the following for more information regarding the evolution of this project:
Music Blocks is available under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3.0, a free, copyleft license.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.9K+190
Open issues
414+16
Compared with peers in Education
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| lfnovo/open-notebook | 41.7K | +730 | 65 | 1 day ago |
| luongnv89/claude-howto | 46.6K | +486 | 47 | 156 days ago |
| github/awesome-copilot | 40.8K | +281 | 45 | — |
| processing/p5.js | 24.2K | — | 65 | 7 days ago |
| apsdehal/awesome-ctf | 12.0K | — | 40 | — |
| sugarlabs/musicblocks | 923 | — | 57 | 48 days ago |
| Category median | 40.8K | +486 | 47 | — |
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