Scratch

Well, first off, I was not sure where I was to place this topic, but since I am creating a topic I put it in the "Things I'm Making and Creating" section. I know great reasoning. (Could a mod please move this to the right section ;D)

Now to get to the real point of this topic.

Hello Scratch community, Recycle here. Some of you may not know me, I started scratching about 3 years ago (/me goes to check... actually 2 and a half... but lets say 3). I was brand new to the internet, never knew what it really was. My computer teacher introduced me to this place, and I fell in love with it. And that's where my thank you comes in.

Scratch really helped shape who I am. I am not kidding. Before scratch I was always interested in science and math, those were my strong points. When I found scratch, I discovered the fun of programming. Not only that, I found the fun of being apart of a community, something that can help others. When I first started scratch, I knew nothing. I remember clicking the button called "Forum", and seeing what looked like charts. (Dont ask me, thats just what I thought of.) I posted a thread, but had no way of seeing it, because I did not know how to navigate such a thing. I then found out what it was, and met the real community that was scratch. Back then, this place was as friendly as it could be. The users were very nice and welcomed me in.

Through this whole time, I was making what are called "Projects", trying to reach scratch fame. I found that I liked to make projects that gave you images, images that you could interpret into anything that you would like. It was more of an outlet, a thing that I could do when I was bored, upset, or inspired. Eventually, I got my wish, featured, top loved, curated, (was a curator myself), and top viewed. But after my peak of fame I guess you could call it, I came back to the forums. It was a great place to have conversations. And I remember coming across a thread about something called HTML. This really started me on the path that I am on today.

I thought that programming was something like scratch, with a GUI, with movable objects and things of that nature. Then, I looked into this HTML thing more. I did not know it at the time, but Scratch in all reality, was preparing me to advance on. As I started to learn more of programming, this place began to change. Sad really, it was such a nice place.

Right now I am designing websites using PHP, CSS, HTML, Jquery, and all that good stuff. I am mastering C#, while making a game with Blender and the Unity game engine.  I would have been able to do none of this, if it were not for Scratch. I felt like it was my job to make sure that all of you who want to program, know that this is the right place to start. I would not understand computers, programs, the internet, basically everything on a computer if it was not for Scratch.

I hope that you can use what you have learned here to help you in other things.

And one last thing.... Meow!

-Recycle49