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Microsoft PXT - Programming eXperience Toolkit

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Arcade Sprite Editor
Source : MakeCode Arcade Wooden Cabinet

Programming eXperience Toolkit is an open source framework offered by Microsoft empowering innovators, educators, developers and researchers to be highly creative in building MakeCode lookalike platforms for CS education with their own flavors.

  • It is the special-purpose programming engine powering popular web-based educational editors such as MakeCode Arcade, Micro:bit, MakeCode for Minecraft and Chibi Chip.
  • Under the hood, it is a TypeScript-driven tool based on Google Blockly
  • For those who prefer working in terminals, the framework comes with a command line tool pxt for development convenience, available as a Node JS package.

Moreover, MakeCode community has contributed to a rich collection of specialized editors suitable for variety of domains. Now you can try out editors fine-tuned for fields such as Data Science, Augmented Reality, Face Recognition, 3D Printing, Traffic Simulation and many more!\

ARcadia Editor
Source : MakeCode Labs

From academic needs to commercial products - PXT has become the ultimate toolbox for inclusive programming experience.

📝 Up for putting together a cool new programming editor of your own? 👉 Start Today 👈 with MakeCode docs!