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> General purpose tools for non-programmers: Since then, there hasn’t been much work in these areas, but from what I’ve seen that might change soon. Really? Lo
by mbesto 13y ago
> General purpose tools for non-programmers: Since then, there hasn’t been much work in these areas, but from what I’ve seen that might change soon.
Really? Loads of examples. One just off the top of my head is Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://scratch.mit.edu/
- blahedo 13y agoI love Scratch and teach it in my gen ed class, but I'm not sure I'd quite call it a "general purpose tool" in the same way that Hypercard was. I could certainly see it evolving (or rather, forking) into such a thing, but as it stands it's a little too kid-education-animation-game-oriented.
- sitkack 13y agoscratch is still programing. following a recipe is interpreting a program. logical sequences of steps.
- tluyben2 13y agoMaybe it's worth to mention Livecode here (http://livecode.com/); http://livecode.com/); it's open source and it's nice and, by now, quite portable; I have compiled it for ARM on the Chromebook (Crouton) and the Pandora.