Hello,
I am new to programming, and wanted to try FRC Blocks out. I installed Python and downloaded the files to use Blocks. I follow the steps to click on “run.bat” and then “index.py” and supposedly the blocks interface should open. It does not for me. If anybody knows what may be going on, that would be awesome.
Thank you
Haha, hello, this is my program (I assume you’re referring to https://github.com/frc3184/frcblocks)
In short: It has not been updated since 2015, wasn’t even close to feature complete before then, and was probably a fairly poorly conceived idea in the first place.
You’ll need to have installed pyfrc as well. There’s a very good chance the API has had breaking changes since then and so won’t work.
You don’t need to open index.py from Windows Explorer, but navigate to it using this link: localhost:8000/cgi-bin/index.py
If there’s a compelling interest for me (or someone else) to update this and get it closer to feature complete, I’m happy to as I love providing resources. But as I find myself increasingly short of time. I’d rather point you to conventional programming tutorials, which will not only be more directly applicable to real programming, but also not that much harder to digest hopefully.
Because block based coding is actually very good for getting started from scratch, I recommend actually starting with Scratch (hah) which is far more mature and can actually teach you the concepts, from which point you can jump to a text based programming language.
Yep, that is the program I am referring to 
Thanks for the advice and quick response. I will look into some other programming tutorials.