Marvin Minsky, the inventor of the digital synthesizer, inspired a music extension of the Logo programming language in the early 1970s. Many of the ideas expressed in Music Blocks originated with Minsky.
Music Blocks is a fork of TurtleArtJS created by Walter Bender.
Devin Ulibarri has contributed functional and user-interface designs. Many of his contributions were inspired by the music education ideas, representations and practices (e.g. aspects of matrix, musical cups) developed and published by Dr. Lawrence Scripp with whom Devin studied at New England Conservatory and for whom he worked at Affron Scripp & Associates, LLC.
Richard Hermann, Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of New Mexico, shared ideas and his publications with our team that inspired new features and improvements.
Gakken Plus, a Japanese education company, contributed designs, the new color scheme, input for the "new beginner mode", new Japanese translations, and the new logo for the Japanese version. Their team worked very hard to help us improve the software. Special thanks to the educators and kids in Japan for their input.
https://mapflc.com/lesson-plans/
https://gakken-steam.jp/music_blocks/
Some of the graphics were contributed by Chie Yasuda (the Mouse theme originates with her). She also has been very patient with Devin as he works on this—thanks Chie!
Much of the initial coding of the fork from Turtle Blocks was done by Yash Khandelwal as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2015. Hemant Kasat contributed to additional widgets as part of GSoC 2016. Additional contributions are being made by Tayba Wasim, Dinuka Tharangi Jayaweera, Prachi Agrawal, Cristina Del Puerto, and Hrishi Patel as part of GSoC 2017.
Many students contributed to the project as part of Google Code-in (2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–2018).
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