/prog/ - Scratch — World4ch

Name: Mezdux 2013-01-07 5:10

What is /prog/'s view on the language "Scratch"?
I personally don't like it myself.

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 5:27

Scratch my anus!

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 5:28

I installed that for a kid once. It's useless shit. A regression. Logo was superior.
Now I just install python when kids (or their mother) want to discover programming. I don't know of any good language for children.

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 5:29

>>3
python
fucking gross

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 5:43

>>3
lithp

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 6:12

>>4,5
Unfortunately, kids are slightly dumber than we were at their age. So C (or Lisp) is not an option. You see, they can connect on facebook to play all the shitty games they want.
Back in my days, if we had the chance to have access to a personal computer, we had to buy a magazine and type what was called a "listing" when we wanted to play something. (Americans just bought Nintendos, they don't know about our shitty Sinclair and Schneider). Programs were mostly in BASIC (PEEK and POKE, ah the memories) or in Z80 ASM for the most curious. At school we were taught LOGO. From there, learning Pascal (or C), another instruction set, or even Lisp was easy.
It's 2013, what do you reckon for children? UCBLogo? Javascript? (poor kids!)

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 6:53

>>6
In Russia it was even worse. In 90ies, x86 PCs were too costly, so people had to port Prince of Persia, Doom and X-Com to BK-0011 and ZX Spectrum (http://bk0010.narod.ru/pashigorov/files/Povest.html)

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 10:26

>>7

people just played dendy and then sega

Scratch

1 Name: Mezdux 2013-01-07 5:10

2 Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 5:27

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8 Name: Anonymous 2013-01-07 10:26