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Pretty sure Excel is the largest coding group in the world, they just don't share their code in Github.
You have to wonder why there isn't a huge online excel community.
They’re all in sleeper cells.
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
#172My 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’ve been tempted to teach my daughter programming with scratch. At what age did you introduce your daughter to Scratch and programming? Where there any helpful/fun guides you or she discovered along the way?
She uses it at school, but no one taught her how to use it. She has followed tutorials for making games on Roblox Studio in the past. However, kids just hit the ground running with Scratch way better than adults.
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
#173They're selling it short - it's the largest coding community full stop. "As of 15 February, 2023, community statistics on the language's official website show more than 123 million projects shared by over 103 million users, over 804 million total projects"[1] Compare to GitHub: "As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 372 million repositories"[2] Of course, the average Scr…
Every time you open a new instance of the Scratch editor, Scratch saves it as a new project. It's still a huge number but a bit skewed compared to e.g. Github.
Haha pretty sure GitHub counts pointless forks and generator projects though
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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Also not OP, but I literally just learned about Hedy [1] today. No experience except from clicking through it for 20 minutes, but it looks quite interesting, taking somebody from a language with a very simple syntax (and limited functionality) to full blown Python, one level at a time, by making the language gradually more complicated (and more powerful). [1] https://www.hedycode.com/
I also quickly went through the basic tasks in 17 levels of Hedy in about 20 mins. (I just know a little programming.) Hedy is text-based and introduces ideas such as: print, entering variables, if, else, repeat, ... I really liked the gradual approach, which keeps you going forward onto the next level. There are additional tasks at each level (see tabs at top) which I didn't try. It seems that these tasks are best d…
Do kids who start programming with Hedy get confused about when a piece of text is interpreted as a variable vs. a string?
https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/2#default
The way it automatically detects variable within strings seems to magical. OTOH AIUI Hedy has been developed alongside research on what works for kids.
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
#175My 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 code in 5 languages professionally, and I also do infrastructure and architecture. My kid is so much better than me in Scratch; it is embarrassing.
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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> 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
Remember that robblox investigation, were they interviewed that 12 year old that already talked like a burned out developer, feeling cheated out of the revenue. The children yearn for the mines.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
Yikes...
Scratch and Roblox conspiracy to create an army of child developers? :O
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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I also quickly went through the basic tasks in 17 levels of Hedy in about 20 mins. (I just know a little programming.) Hedy is text-based and introduces ideas such as: print, entering variables, if, else, repeat, ... I really liked the gradual approach, which keeps you going forward onto the next level. There are additional tasks at each level (see tabs at top) which I didn't try. It seems that these tasks are best d…
Do kids who start programming with Hedy get confused about when a piece of text is interpreted as a variable vs. a string? https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/2#default The way it automatically detects variable within strings seems to magical. OTOH AIUI Hedy has been developed alongside research on what works for kids.
IIRC one of Hedy’s unique features is that it gradually increases in complexity as you “level up” including introducing what we’d call “breaking changes”. At level 4, they start allowing and requiring you to quote string literals: https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/4#default
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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Do kids who start programming with Hedy get confused about when a piece of text is interpreted as a variable vs. a string? https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/2#default The way it automatically detects variable within strings seems to magical. OTOH AIUI Hedy has been developed alongside research on what works for kids.
IIRC one of Hedy’s unique features is that it gradually increases in complexity as you “level up” including introducing what we’d call “breaking changes”. At level 4, they start allowing and requiring you to quote string literals: https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/4#default
Nice!
I'm excited for my son to try it out once he's gotten comfortable with scratch.
At the moment, he's more interested in the visual design part of scratch than the programming, so I probably need to find some cool existing animations to inspire him.
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
#179They're selling it short - it's the largest coding community full stop. "As of 15 February, 2023, community statistics on the language's official website show more than 123 million projects shared by over 103 million users, over 804 million total projects"[1] Compare to GitHub: "As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 372 million repositories"[2] Of course, the average Scr…
The numbers do lie I think. I have two Github accounts (work and private). My single Scratch account is also used by my two kids. So Scratch might be even more ahead. On the other hand, your numbers are accounts, I assume. Not active users
Many Scratchers hop between accounts like they're… well, accounts in a computer system. Last I checked, the average (among active Scratchers) seemed to be about 4 accounts per person.
Re: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
#180My 8 yo loves Scratch. She's made over 30 apps with it and has had a great time. However, now that she's reached the limits of what it can do, I have been frustrated that there isn't a natural place for her to graduate to. And Scratch does get really limited quickly. There are unofficial forks like SheepTester's one which let you drop JavaScript into Scratch projects, but they're not easy to use. We've failed a few t…
What app/device are you using? Looking for something like this for my 6 year old.