Photo by Michael Erb Fifth-graders Alivia Bibbee, left, and Emma Casto, right, work with the Blockly coding program on iPads during a coding class at Emerson Elementary School.

Using Blockly, an aptly named computer coding language that allows commands to be dragged and dropped into place in block format, users get to see how code can create visually appealing stories.

Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code -- the company's site for hosting open ...

It attracted over 22,000 contest applicants, who were asked to create an image, not with basic hardcore code, but with Blockly, an image-based code program that was developed at Google.