Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

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Post by khochesh_kushat » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:17 PM UTC

Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
scratch.mit.edu

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Post by hcaz » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

I have spent countless hours in scratch when I was younger. I learnt to program in basic originally but I loved scratch for its ease of use.

There was a group of us during ICT classes who would try and make the best games with scratch. Ended up learning the basics of momentum and control schemes by messing around with it.

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Post by balls187 » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:31 PM UTC

Scratch is also one of the largest places for kids to play games.

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Post by contemplatter » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:32 PM UTC

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Post by mattw2121 » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

Also used in Harvard's, excellent, CS50. I recommend this for any middle or high schoolers thinking about a career in tech.

https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-sc...

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Post by trustingtrust » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:37 PM UTC

My 9 year old nephew today told me he wants to learn scratch. I don’t know where he heard that from but he was very specific about it. Wow.

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Post by pavlov » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

contemplatter wrote: post #4

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Why spend money on expensive Legos when you can buy any imaginable plastic toy for cheaper on AliExpress?

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Post by khochesh_kushat » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

contemplatter wrote: post #4

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I suspect even with AIs certain kinds of people will still enjoy creating by hand. Certain kinds of people won't, of course, and that's ok.

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Post by gs17 » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

contemplatter wrote: post #4

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Because they're doing this for fun. A lot of kids genuinely enjoy the process of making games.

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Post by patchymcnoodles » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

contemplatter wrote: post #4

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Why learning anything, if we have GPT-4? Why even commenting here, GPT-4 could do that, too ;).