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Wie lange warten die Smalltalker denn schon auf einen solchen Boom?http://scratch.mit.edu wrote:There are 50,659 projects with a total of 869,863 scripts and 301,923 sprites created by 10,427 contributors of our 52,434 registered members. That's a lot of Scratch-ing!
Martin wrote:aus: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=951
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mrgrant: I support your idea to have an advanced Scratch, but not inside Scratch but inside Squeak. I also had many ideas how to improve Scratch, but - like you - I more and more came to the conclusion, that most of it causes confusion to beginners.
So it's better that Scratch stays as it is for beginners (with some minor improvements) and that there was a way for "non-beginners" to profit from their Scratch-Knowhow (and Projects) when changing to the "mother of Scratch".
Squeak - as it is - would be a shock for even most advanced Scratchers, because it is much to complex and powerfull for beginners. But a "Scratch-Squeak", where you can lift up the curtain from Scratch to the entire Squeak step by step, could be a solution. Perhaps in Scratch-Squeak you could influence your Scratch-Sprites like the robots in http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc , so you enlarge your programming knowledge starting with the Scratch items you know.
If the students will be interested to learn Java or C++ after entering the Smalltalkworld of Squeak is an other question. The strange thing is, that almost everybody, who has been deep inside Smalltalk, falls in love with it. At the other hand many people don't get inside, cause the borders are too high.
For getting from Scratch to Squeak see:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jens/22355
You will have a very fascinating Scratch experience
(Thank you Jens for finding "the Matrix like Redpill" to get to the other side)
Martin
aus: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=414
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"mungojelly" is right to say that SCRATCH is only a kind of “filter" to SQUEAK and that everyone, who want’s to have advanced features in SCRATCH, should have a closer look at SQUEAK.
In 3/2007 I accidentally found SCRATCH by searching how I could introduce my three children (Valeria 9, Victor 7 and Viola 5) to programming: And it worked! With nearly no typing-abilities they created their own programs and understood basic concepts of software development, while having lots of fun (even more fun, than I had with my first VC20 at the age of 12 : ))
Additionally, I was happy to find out that SCRATCH took me back to my old programming-language-love (after 10 years): SMALLTALK (SQUEAK is the most popular open source implementation of it, it's like LINUX to UNIX). SMALLTALK is the oldest, purest, most powerful and also easiest to learn OO-Programming language. SCRATCH gives a small glance of how it feels, to work inside a net of living objects instead with snippets of dead source code. In SMALLTALK you build up a whole world of related objects with only a hand full of syntax-concepts. Without going to much into “programming language religion" : It’s that aesthetics that makes some people “feel" that SMALLTALK could be the right way.
It’s kind of a joke of the IT-history that now, 27 years after introduction of SMALTALK80, it seems to have a big comeback (with SCRATCH, CROQUET, SEASIDE and other popular projects). It was always strange, that the biggest successes of SMALLTALKs world of ideas (e.g. OO-Programming, Windows-Operatingsystem, Mouse-Device, Notebook-PC…) seemed to have no influence to SMALLTALKs own popularity. Its pragmatically but unpure spinoffs got the worlds attraction (e.g. C++, Java, Ruby, MacOS->MS-Windows...) and SMALLTALK stayed in its insider-corner.
Alan Kay - SMALLTAKs main creator and winner of the IT Nobel prize "Turing Award" - didn’t seem to have a real worldwide breakthrough with his idea, to make IT easy to understand for everybody - especially for children - until now:
With SCRATCH this breakthrough seems to be nearer than ever before, cause it takes away the complexity, while preserving the feeling of simplicity and power. It would be great, if SCRATCH could be a start for young people, to make their first programming experiences and give them a chance to continue with SMALLTALK if they want more. The SCRATCH-Team could guide that way, e.g. by creating a concept of opening more and more of SCRATCHs “filter" up to the full SQUEAK-SMALLTALK environment.
Find and put more information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%2 … anguage%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_%28software%29
Martin
Hallo Leute,
Es wird Zeit,auf das kleine/grosse Geschwisterchen von Etoys
hinweisen: Scratch! Scratch bietet einen sehr guten Einstieg ins
Programmieren für Kinder ab zwölf - ist dabei weniger "anarchistisch"
als Etoys, so ist es nicht open source, man kann nicht so ohne
weiteres in Smalltalk wechseln, aber dafür ist es höchst
professionell (mit Squeak) gemacht, man kommt mit Scratch sehr
schnell zum Ziel, was eine Unmenge an Beispielen http://
scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest beweisen.
Es bildet sich grade eine aktive deutschsprachige Community zu
Scratch, einige tolle Scratch Projekte dieser Community gibt es hier:
http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/1638
Jetzt interessiert mich sehr, wie Ihr das seht:
Können wir den Scratchern anbieten, bei uns im Verein mitzumachen
(entsprechend auch Stände mit Scratch, Vorträge und Fahrtkosten
sponsorn etc.) und auch natürlich einen grossen Teil vom squeak.de
Kuchen abzubekommen?
Ich denke, wir haben die gleichen Ziele und die gleiche Technik und
beide Communities haben noch zu wenig Masse alleine, wäre also sehr
dafür.
Meinungen? +1s, -1s etc.?
Liebe Grüsse,
Markus
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