[Edu-sig] More pipeline developments

francois schnell francois.schnell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 19:38:31 CEST 2007


A Blog post concerning Scratch from Bill Kerr, a teacher and Python
programmer in Australia :

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch.html

He also had a post on Pata Pata:

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/search?q=patapata

francois



On 3/27/07, Dethe Elza <delza at livingcode.org> wrote:
>
> I wanted to thank Markus and Kirby for pointing out Scratch to the
> list.  After a little exposure to Lego Mindstorms, both my kids were
> able to pick up scratch and start building with it.  My ten-year-old
> helps my 6-year-old with programming now %-)
>
> I've had some fun with it as well, although, like Kirby, I miss my
> OO, and wish I could extend it.  Rather than wishing, I'm working on
> creating a scratch-like view in my Python and Cocoa-based animation
> tool, Drawing Board.  Still very early stages, but I think it could
> give a nice curve for moving from direct manipulation to  drag-and-
> snap interfaces to reading/writing the resulting code.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dethe
>
> On 3-Mar-07, at 8:21 AM, Markus Schlager wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, kirby urner wrote:
> >
> >> If other subscribers to edu-sig have success stories using
> >> Scratch, I'd be interested in learning about 'em.  Here's
> >> the web site for those new to this language (note Linux
> >> version in the works): http://scratch.mit.edu/
> >>
> >
> > The .exe is just a self-extracting zip-archive. You can run the .image
> > included with squeaks VM on Linux as well. If you use the archives
> > directory-structure as is, the only thing not working is the
> > fullscreen-presentation-mode.
> >
> > Three or four weeks from now I'm going to use Scratch with my 7th-
> > graders
> > at a German Gymnasium as starting point to teach them algorithmic
> > thinking, which I consider it a _really_ good tool for. I don't
> > have to
> > care about syntax or typewriting and am able to focus on the core
> > concepts from the very beginning.
> >
> > Markus
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>
> "It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory." the late
> W. Edwards Deming
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