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

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

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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.

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

#7
I 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.

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

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Scratch is really cool - my 6 year old daughter enjoys it a lot even though she doesn't grasp all of it yet. But I think it's a good start in that it starts introducing some of the concepts behind making a computer do things, and making things with computers. She has fun with it too, it's pleasant, which should help develop a positive attitude.

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

#9

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

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

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post #9

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

Really? That's very exciting!
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