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EToys is pretty nice http://www.squeakland.org http://www.squeakland.org It's similar to Scratch (both use drag and drop "blocks", both use Smalltalk, although
by chriswarbo 6y ago
EToys is pretty nice http://www.squeakland.org http://www.squeakland.org
It's similar to Scratch (both use drag and drop "blocks", both use Smalltalk, although I think Scratch has a JS version now). The nice thing about EToys is that it manipulates objects in a direct and live way, whereas Scratch separate the "code" from the "scene". For example, EToys lets us draw a character and attach script blocks to make it move and react; but we can also attach script blocks to those script blocks; and so on. I find this more powerful, and reduces the barrier for "graduating" from block-based programming to "real" programming (EToys lets us mix and match scripting blocks with real Smalltalk code).