Blockell is an online IDE that supports a bespoke Block-Based Functional Programming Language, designed to help teach novice (functional) programmers the basics of functional programming. The IDE supports code editing of a subset of said language, and real time conversion into Haskell.

Future plans for this project are:

• Expand the scope of the langauge, including but not limited to:
  • Function Currying
  • Abstract Typing
  • Monadic Components
• Implement Type based syntax highlighting / block coloring
• Implement a working Interpreter to give real time results

This project originated as part of a Disertation for the award of MEng Computer Science at the University of Southampton, but has since evolved further with development continuing long after graduation.