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Every time I sit down and watch my kids using Scratch I have to say what a horrible piece of crap it is. I'm not just annoyed because I had to install Flash for
by donohoe 10y ago
Every time I sit down and watch my kids using Scratch I have to say what a horrible piece of crap it is. I'm not just annoyed because I had to install Flash for them to use it.
Surely we can do better?
- baldfat 10y agoThere are many many other scratch like languages. https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Alternatives_to_Scratch https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Alternatives_to_Scratch Personally my kids didn't like Scratch but my daughter will do some Racket with me.
- spdegabrielle 10y agoDon't forget Bootstrap! though it is aimed at an older age bracket than scratch or byob http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ http://www.bootstrapworld.org/
- baldfat 10y agoWhich is actually a sub script of Racket :) Just like Hacker News Arc and my beloved Racket.
- chriswarbo 10y agoCurious to see that EToys is missing from that list; it's Smalltalk-based like Scratch is/was, and like Scratch is preinstalled on all OLPC XO laptops (although I've managed to exhaust the memory quite easily with it!)
- gbear605 10y agoI'm not really sure where you're coming from. I'm a CS major who was introduced to CS from Scratch and if it weren't for Scratch then I might not be doing it now. I think it does a great job of it's goal of getting kids interested in programming. Although when I used it, it was Scratch 1.x, which was a stand alone app that didn't require Flash.