A Blog post concerning Scratch from Bill Kerr, a teacher and Python programmer in Australia :<br><br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch.html</a><br><br>
He also had a post on Pata Pata:<br><br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/search?q=patapata">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/search?q=patapata</a><br><br>francois<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Dethe Elza</b> <<a href="mailto:delza@livingcode.org">delza@livingcode.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I wanted to thank Markus and Kirby for pointing out Scratch to the<br>list. After a little exposure to Lego Mindstorms, both my kids were<br>able to pick up scratch and start building with it. My ten-year-old<br>helps my 6-year-old with programming now %-)
<br><br>I've had some fun with it as well, although, like Kirby, I miss my<br>OO, and wish I could extend it. Rather than wishing, I'm working on<br>creating a scratch-like view in my Python and Cocoa-based animation
<br>tool, Drawing Board. Still very early stages, but I think it could<br>give a nice curve for moving from direct manipulation to drag-and-<br>snap interfaces to reading/writing the resulting code.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>
--Dethe<br><br>On 3-Mar-07, at 8:21 AM, Markus Schlager wrote:<br><br>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, kirby urner wrote:<br>><br>>> If other subscribers to edu-sig have success stories using<br>>> Scratch, I'd be interested in learning about 'em. Here's
<br>>> the web site for those new to this language (note Linux<br>>> version in the works): <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">http://scratch.mit.edu/</a><br>>><br>><br>> The .exe is just a self-extracting zip-archive. You can run the .image
<br>> included with squeaks VM on Linux as well. If you use the archives<br>> directory-structure as is, the only thing not working is the<br>> fullscreen-presentation-mode.<br>><br>> Three or four weeks from now I'm going to use Scratch with my 7th-
<br>> graders<br>> at a German Gymnasium as starting point to teach them algorithmic<br>> thinking, which I consider it a _really_ good tool for. I don't<br>> have to<br>> care about syntax or typewriting and am able to focus on the core
<br>> concepts from the very beginning.<br>><br>> Markus<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Edu-sig mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Edu-sig@python.org">Edu-sig@python.org</a><br>
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