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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?
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.
I've taught a few kids using Scratch and it works quite well. I'm happy to hear they're working on an HTML5 version, and hopefully it will be possible to install if offline like the current Adobe AIR version does. I teach with a few netbooks running Ubuntu, and can't always rely on having internet, so I had to install the last version of AIR that supported Linux to get it working. There is also an unaffiliated app fo…
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.
"Blockly is a component that may be useful for a variety of projects, including educational tools. We want developers to be able to play with Blockly, give feedback, and think of novel uses for it. All the code is free and open source."
https://code.google.com/p/blockly/source/browse/trunk/COPYIN...
Scratch is great for making animated comics. It appeals to girls as well as boys. I taught kids from 6 to 12 years last year. Kids older than that got bored with it. Highly recommended.
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.
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.
Scratch is free, committed to open source, and is frankly the best software out there for getting young kids excited about coding.
I'd highly recommend it, despite being encumbered by flash.
Scratch is great for making animated comics. It appeals to girls as well as boys. I taught kids from 6 to 12 years last year. Kids older than that got bored with it. Highly recommended.
My son's elementary school held a series of scratch programming classes; the turnout was over 90% male. That seems like a shame to me.