How Azure Works

An excellent overview of Azure fundamentals:

How Windows Azure Works

this is a chapter from book: Manning | Azure in Action

Azure-SampleCh-3.pdf

visual programming: "Blockly" @ Google Developers

google/blockly: The web-based visual programming editor. @ GitHub

Blockly | Google Developers
"Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors."

• "Web-based, no Flash.
• 100% client-side.
• Only 150 KB compressed.
• Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE.
• Android and iOS support. 
• Variables, functions, arrays...
• Syntax errors are impossible.
• Basic type checking.
• Extend with custom blocks.
• Open source. 
• Export as JS, Python, and more.
• Clean code generation.
• Execute code step-by-step.
• Translated to 40+ languages.
• RTL for Arabic and Hebrew."

it is like Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share (scratch.mit.edu) and likely better

Blockly Games (blockly-games.appspot.com)

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