Anybody remember Logo? That turtle graphics program?
That's what they taught us at school. Programming for kids surely has changed a lot since then.
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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#12I was impressed when I had seen that the scratch forum has millions of posts: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/
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#13My 9 year old daughter surprised me yesterday with her little game made with Scratch. I was impressed.
I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't!
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#14My 9 year old daughter surprised me yesterday with her little game made with Scratch. I was impressed. I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't!
> I surprised her back when I did user-testing
Wait till she gets tough PR reviews.
This block is ugly, and our team does not like looking at it :P
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#15Anybody remember Logo? That turtle graphics program? That's what they taught us at school. Programming for kids surely has changed a lot since then.
Scratch is part of the same lineage [0]. Seymour Papert (creator of Logo) was one of the doctoral advisors of Mitch Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that maintains Scratch.
[0] https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/histor...
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#16Scratch is also one of the largest places for kids to play games.
Yeah, I learned this when I thought my kid was spending hours coding, he was actually spending hours playing games.
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#17If any parents live in Toronto, the TPL has programs for kids (9+) on Scratch at various branches:
* https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=Scratch+C...
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#18When people use scratch with their kids, what tutorials do they follow? Do they try and figure things out from first principles, or are their popular content creators who make stuff? How do people transition their kids from scratch to Python? From my experience teaching, it seems like it's really hard for kids to make that transition.
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#19Haven’t worked with scratch myself, but I do enjoy HelloComics’ stream where they’re making a pretty fun looking 2d metroidvania style game in Scrtatch. If you’re interested in seeing how it could be used for a large scale project it might be worth a look: https://m.twitch.tv/hellocomics.
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#20My 9 year old daughter surprised me yesterday with her little game made with Scratch. I was impressed. I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't!
Quality Assurance is a first reality-check.
Please shield her from doing UAT with unreasonable business stakeholders as long as you can