[Edu-sig] More pipeline developments

[Dethe Elza]

I wanted to thank Markus and Kirby for pointing out Scratch to the  
list.  After a little exposure to Lego Mindstorms, both my kids were  
able to pick up scratch and start building with it.  My ten-year-old  
helps my 6-year-old with programming now %-)

I've had some fun with it as well, although, like Kirby, I miss my  
OO, and wish I could extend it.  Rather than wishing, I'm working on  
creating a scratch-like view in my Python and Cocoa-based animation  
tool, Drawing Board.  Still very early stages, but I think it could  
give a nice curve for moving from direct manipulation to  drag-and- 
snap interfaces to reading/writing the resulting code.

Thanks!

--Dethe

On 3-Mar-07, at 8:21 AM, Markus Schlager wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, kirby urner wrote:
>
>> If other subscribers to edu-sig have success stories using
>> Scratch, I'd be interested in learning about 'em.  Here's
>> the web site for those new to this language (note Linux
>> version in the works): http://scratch.mit.edu/
>>
>
> The .exe is just a self-extracting zip-archive. You can run the .image
> included with squeaks VM on Linux as well. If you use the archives
> directory-structure as is, the only thing not working is the
> fullscreen-presentation-mode.
>
> Three or four weeks from now I'm going to use Scratch with my 7th- 
> graders
> at a German Gymnasium as starting point to teach them algorithmic
> thinking, which I consider it a _really_ good tool for. I don't  
> have to
> care about syntax or typewriting and am able to focus on the core
> concepts from the very beginning.
>
> Markus
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