One of the older versions of Scratch had support for Lego WeDo. Does Scratch 2.0 have support for Lego WeDo? Would love to introduce it to my kids!
MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source
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#43I saw somewhere that (now their) App Inventor makes for 13 percent of language use for education purposes, while Python is at 14 percent. They must be doing something right.
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#44One of the older versions of Scratch had support for Lego WeDo. Does Scratch 2.0 have support for Lego WeDo? Would love to introduce it to my kids!
Well, I originally asked this question because awhile back the Scratch WeDo site said they didn't have support for 2.0 yet, but I just looked here [1] and found this:
> In Scratch 2.0, you can add a LEGO WeDo extension within the "More Blocks" category. Click "Add an Extension" and choose "LEGO WeDo."
So, awesome!
[1] -- http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/LEGO_WeDo_Construction_Set
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#45I'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…
As I mentioned below, they are making a tablet version of Scratch aimed at 5-7 year old kids. Out this summer.... http://www.scratchjr.org/
Just iPad or Android, too?
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#46Is there a linux distro that is centered around Scratch that I can PXE boot on my media center PC for my son to play with?
I'm interested in getting him into computing of sorts. I tried Doudoulinux, but it was mostly not good.
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#47There is also the Phratch version (Pharo based).
http://www.phratch.com/
This is more for grown ups where one can integrate all kinds of cools things.
A video with Lego Mindstorms EV3 controls.
And engineers have fun too. http://vimeo.com/89912838
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#48I played with Scratch for some time with my 9 year old son. They've done an excellent job with it. We ended up using Construct 2, only because they've done an even better job and it releases to HTML 5, is playable on all kinds of devices including iPad.
https://www.scirra.com/construct2 - not seen that before, thanks for the tip. Edit: looks like it's Windows only. Will try with WINE. Edit2: Pretty buggy on WINE over Kubuntu 14.04 - crashes when trying to start project from template or when run layout on empty project.
Tom here from Scirra (it's awesome to spot links to Construct 2 in the wild!)
Yes, Windows only for now. We stuck with what we knew to start off which was Windows development.
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#49Is there a linux distro that is centered around Scratch that I can PXE boot on my media center PC for my son to play with? I'm interested in getting him into computing of sorts. I tried Doudoulinux, but it was mostly not good.
Instead of using your media center pc could you get him a Raspberry Pi? I bought my nephew an RPi so he could use Scratch and have a computer of his own. The only challenge I had was figuring out an easy way to introduce him to Minecraft Pi edition.
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#50Is there a linux distro that is centered around Scratch that I can PXE boot on my media center PC for my son to play with? I'm interested in getting him into computing of sorts. I tried Doudoulinux, but it was mostly not good.
When you install NOOBS on the Raspberry Pi there is a "boot to Scratch" option. Maybe that's an option?