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Ah scratch. Some years ago I wanted to show what cool stuff you can do with computers to a 10y old boy. Found scratch and actually got hooked myself for a bit ^

by DeepDuh 14y ago

Ah scratch. Some years ago I wanted to show what cool stuff you can do with computers to a 10y old boy. Found scratch and actually got hooked myself for a bit ^^. Ended up with this (slightly embarassing thing): http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/DeepDuh/941811 http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/DeepDuh/941811. After programming a bit, the limitations become apparent big time. Google's idea to implement this as a Javascript parser is probably a good idea, this way some kids may make the bridge to the actual program. Also, it's probably way way better performing. If you like visual programming, have a look at subtext. IMO this is the best idea for a visual programmig style, I hope it gets traction http://www.subtextual.org/ http://www.subtextual.org/.

wccrawford 14y ago
My niece was telling me about Scratch and how she knew what was wrong with other people's code and how she'd fix it. I am so freaking proud.
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  You should be. I hope we will have some kids to show things like this some day ;).
rezaprima 14y ago
have you tried BYOB [1]? It's "an advanced offshoot of Scratch" [1] http://byob.berkeley.edu/ http://byob.berkeley.edu/
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  That website is glorious :). Yeah, I think this might go a bit far. Scratch's community sadly isn't so big, further fragmentation won't help that much I think. And the platform doesn't make a very solid impression to me. That's why I like google's idea, I hope they pour some money into this.
  - YAFZ 14y ago
    > Scratch's community sadly isn't so big This might change your idea: http://day.scratch.mit.edu/ http://day.scratch.mit.edu/
  - richwhite 14y ago
    Scratch not so big ? ... http://scratch.mit.edu http://scratch.mit.edu has over 2.5 million projects posted to it and over 1 million registered users !
    - DeepDuh 14y ago
      Yep it seems like it has grown quite a bit since I've looked at it last time. I still think a platform like this should be bigger - as in a substantial fraction of school children big. Every child should try playing with something like scratch, just to see whether (s)he might like it and go into programming. When I was a child I went straight from some learning program for children with some graphical macro editor (poor man's hypercard) to VB6 and it led me to what I am now. That's why I think it's really important what toys we give to our children.

by DeepDuh 14y ago

wccrawford 14y ago

My niece was telling me about Scratch and how she knew what was wrong with other people's code and how she'd fix it. I am so freaking proud.

DeepDuh 14y ago
You should be. I hope we will have some kids to show things like this some day ;).

rezaprima 14y ago

have you tried BYOB [1]? It's "an advanced offshoot of Scratch" [1] http://byob.berkeley.edu/ http://byob.berkeley.edu/

DeepDuh 14y ago
That website is glorious :). Yeah, I think this might go a bit far. Scratch's community sadly isn't so big, further fragmentation won't help that much I think. And the platform doesn't make a very solid impression to me. That's why I like google's idea, I hope they pour some money into this.
- YAFZ 14y ago
  > Scratch's community sadly isn't so big This might change your idea: http://day.scratch.mit.edu/ http://day.scratch.mit.edu/
- richwhite 14y ago
  Scratch not so big ? ... http://scratch.mit.edu http://scratch.mit.edu has over 2.5 million projects posted to it and over 1 million registered users !
  - DeepDuh 14y ago
    Yep it seems like it has grown quite a bit since I've looked at it last time. I still think a platform like this should be bigger - as in a substantial fraction of school children big. Every child should try playing with something like scratch, just to see whether (s)he might like it and go into programming. When I was a child I went straight from some learning program for children with some graphical macro editor (poor man's hypercard) to VB6 and it led me to what I am now. That's why I think it's really important what toys we give to our children.