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joshberg65 · 2013-03-12 19:54:41

We are Daddy (Josh) and Jalen. Daddy is 32 years old and Jaslen is less than a month away from being 7 years old. Jalen has wanted to be a video game designer for over two years now. Daddy is a former U.S. Army Sergeant and currently in his last semester at Missouri State University.

With time for projects at a premium, Daddy downloaded Scratch over a year ago for Jalen, but never got around to any formal training. This changed two weeks ago, and both have been studying hard using Super Scratch Programming Adventure as a learning tool.

Daddy thought this might be too complicated for Jalen, but Jalen is sooooo smart! He has learned about x and y axis, as well positive and negative numbers. Daddy has found that when in doubt, use a Super Mario reference and things become easier.

Our first gaming project is called "Techno Space." We're still having fun finding new ways to improve upon the design of our project.

We hope to be valued members of the Scratch community! We just recently shared our gaming project so please let us know what suggestions or encouragement you have for us!

Thank you!

Nomolos · 2013-03-12 20:10:17

Hiya Daddy and Jalen! Welcome to Scratch! 7 years old isn't too young to start and I believe Jalen will become a great programmer in time! My sister recently joined and she's 7 also!

I look forward to what you guys will make together! I'll check out the project you just made. Again, welcome to Scratch!

joshberg65 · 2013-03-12 20:26:15

We really appreciate you checking the game out and leaving comments. We are new to this, but having a lot of fun. We want to do all sorts of modifications smile

We checked out COW OR IS IT? Hilarious!

Firedrake969 · 2013-03-12 21:41:29

Welcome!

Modifications, as modding Scratch, or modding games made in Scratch?

joshberg65 · 2013-03-12 21:55:23

Right now, we're focused on making modifications to our textbook project that is available here on the site. We hope to eventually make our own game without any textbook help!

scratcher5000 · 2013-03-12 22:51:23

Welcome Daddy and Jalen!

I hope you have a good time using Scratch!

joshberg65 · 2013-03-13 08:57:22

Thank you!

soniku3 · 2013-03-13 10:15:33

Welcome, you and the young one will encounter dozens of new people here! When in doubt, just ask someone!

joshberg65 · 2013-03-13 13:06:30

I appreciate it! What is the most intricate scratch project you guys have ever seen?

soniku3 · 2013-03-13 13:12:52

joshberg65 wrote:
I appreciate it! What is the most intricate scratch project you guys have ever seen?

This guys projects are awesome : http://scratch.mit.edu/users/Wes64 . But they aren't confusing.

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Gravitation · 2013-03-13 13:21:41

Hello, welcome to Scratch! big_smile

joshberg65 wrote:
I appreciate it! What is the most intricate scratch project you guys have ever seen?

Soniku's already linked to Wes64, but I've got another awesome Scratcher: richjones69. His 2 latest projects don't really show his skill to the full extent, so check out the others, like Reversi or Darts Champion. They're awesome.

cartooncreator · 2013-03-13 16:02:44

Hello, Daddy and Jalen! It's great to have you guys on Scratch - hope you have tons of fun and learn a lot! wink

joshberg65 · 2013-03-13 16:20:42

Thank you both! Gravitation, I appreciate the link. I'm going to sit down with Jalen in a few days and we're gonna study a couple of projects from Wes64 and richjones69 to see if we can find cool scripts that might be beneficial to our projects down the road. Jalen seems very intrigued by what is possible. I absolutely love seeing his imagination fire up!

Nomolos · 2013-03-14 16:21:30

joshberg65 wrote:
Thank you both! Gravitation, I appreciate the link. I'm going to sit down with Jalen in a few days and we're gonna study a couple of projects from Wes64 and richjones69 to see if we can find cool scripts that might be beneficial to our projects down the road. Jalen seems very intrigued by what is possible. I absolutely love seeing his imagination fire up!

Great! Also, another AMAZING scratcher is RHY3756547. But he was banned from Scratch years ago.

CAA14-NL · 2013-03-14 22:10:13

Welcome to scratch.

I think that it's really never to early to learn a trade, so I think that's great that your son is starting so young. smile

I love that you and him are doing it as a father teaching son endeavor, it's definitely appropriate, and I wish y'all both well. smile

Regards,

CAA14

ArtStarArtist · 2013-03-14 22:11:39

Welcome to scratch!

CAA14-NL · 2013-03-14 22:14:34

joshberg65 wrote:
I appreciate it! What is the most intricate scratch project you guys have ever seen?

Well, I would say any project that generates 3D images.

Regards,

CAA14

ArtStarArtist · 2013-03-15 08:23:35

Welcome to scratch

joshberg65 · 2013-03-15 20:05:01

Guys, thank you so much for the feedback. Today we're going to download a few Scratch apps and see what makes them tick (and play them, of course!)

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