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[Follow up read] Why developers never use state machine: http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/why-developers-never-use-state-machines/ http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/wh

• magoghm 10y ago
  I almost always use state machines.
• jops 10y ago
  State machines in games should be a lure enough for the kids: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html
• myhf 10y ago
  Scratch is actually pretty good at expressing state machines. Since all statements are atomic and all scripts on a sprite run in parallel, you can write one script that says forever: wait until Today == Saturday repeat until Today != Saturday: do things outside and another script that says forever: wait until Today == Thursday repeat until Today != Thursday: if there is trash: take out the trash and then any process that updates `Today` will cause the sprite to perform the right behavior on the right day.