Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
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Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
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Re: Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
#2Um, isn't this just an exact clone of Scratch? http://scratch.mit.edu/
Re: Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
#3Um, isn't this just an exact clone of Scratch? http://scratch.mit.edu/
From their site:
It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch (a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab) that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These added capabilities make it suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school or college students.
Re: Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
#4Awesome, makes programming accessible to the uninitiated. I was able to create a simple event loop with asteroid like mechanics in a few minutes.
Re: Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
#5I did not find this at all intuitive. Possibly because I have never worked with Scratch before. No idea what I was supposed to be doing and no obvious forms of help.
Re: Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta
#6I did not find this at all intuitive. Possibly because I have never worked with Scratch before. No idea what I was supposed to be doing and no obvious forms of help.
Documentation for Snap! is underway...
There is some help on http://snap.berkeley.edu (without the /run suffix)
Check out the Reference Manual, which is also a concise introduction to the IDE: http://snap.berkeley.edu/SnapManual.pdf
and some introductory tutorials on Youtube:
About "Build Your Own Block: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbl2fh3igQ4
And on how to add inputs to them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZC2tDVYWBo
Also, there are helpscreens in the context menu for each block