MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source • Hacker News Board

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by sdg1 » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:25 PM UTC

jimmar wrote: post #15

Interesting project! Just a note--I got to step 3 of 13 on the Scratch tutorial and the language switched to Dutch or something ("3 Dansen maar Voeg een nieuw NEEM STAPPEN-blok toe. Klik in het blok en typ een min-teken.")

Whoops! It should be fixed now. (Thanks for reporting!)

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by tijs » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

Hardly 'open' but if you're looking for something similar that works nicely on an iPad Hopscotch is also worth a look https://www.gethopscotch.com

Bit more limited than Scratch but the new editing interface they just released works really well.

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by grdvnl » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:38 PM UTC

nighthawk24 wrote: post #4

Catroid is another cool related project https://github.com/Catrobat/Catroid

This is great. Every time I visited the Scratch website I wished I could use a similar project on a tablet/smartphone.

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by davexunit » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:43 PM UTC

sdg1 wrote: post #9

davexunit wrote: post #6

It's unfortunate that Scratch is built upon the Flash platform. Though Scratch has been released under the GPL, it requires nonfree software in order to run. Scratch looks interesting, but I cannot recommend its use until this problem is fixed.

We have a work-in-progress HTML5 version as well: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5

Well that is great news! Thanks for letting me know.

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by peterb » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:47 PM UTC

I tried to get my son into Scratch, but he didn't like it. He loves hacking on Lua code in the Roblox game.

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:50 PM UTC

This (along with the existence of the HTML5 version linked elsewhere in the comments, https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5 ) is great news! I've always hesitated to point anyone at Scratch due to its non-open license. It's great to see that problem solved.

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by danielweber » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:53 PM UTC

ISTR Scratch being available as a standalone executable, and then changing into a web app. The standalone tool made it easy to let my kid play around with while not having the whole internet there to distract him. Is the standalone app still available?

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by skierscott » Tue, May 13, 2014, 7:53 PM UTC

Ah, Scratch. This is how I got started with programming (pretty late, my senior year in high school). I made a game[0] where you try and knock another player or a dumb AI off a disk.

[0]:http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1108096/

Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 13, 2014, 8:04 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #27

ISTR Scratch being available as a standalone executable, and then changing into a web app. The standalone tool made it easy to let my kid play around with while not having the whole internet there to distract him. Is the standalone app still available?

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Re: MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

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Post by beemoe » Tue, May 13, 2014, 8:08 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #27

ISTR Scratch being available as a standalone executable, and then changing into a web app. The standalone tool made it easy to let my kid play around with while not having the whole internet there to distract him. Is the standalone app still available?

Yes, the old 1.4 version is available and the new 2.0 version has a stand alone build that works without internet access. It requires adobe AIR.

http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/

http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/