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 > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig "It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory." the late W. Edwards Deming _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
