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#1 2009-06-08 02:00:56
Questions about Scratch
I have been moving onto other programming languages and I have been wondering:
1.Are Variables and Lists dynamically created,or is there an Array which contains variable and values?
2.Is squeak object-oriented? can you,for example,create your own object and assign values and functions to it?
3.Are broadcasts just functions that you dynamically created?
4.How hard would it be to create a Flash compiler for Scratch like you have with Java? Would it even be possible?
Thanks,
Tcb 
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#2 2009-06-08 06:48:17
Re: Questions about Scratch
1 In scratch arrays are created when you code it, but can be modfied
2. Squeak is based on small talk - small talk is the definition of object orientated
3. Not sure
4. I understand they made a C compiler for flash - I would start with that and try to find code that ran a squeak image. How hard no idea.
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#3 2009-06-08 12:09:59
Re: Questions about Scratch
Mike_W wrote:
1 In scratch arrays are created when you code it, but can be modfied
2. Squeak is based on small talk - small talk is the definition of object orientated
3. Not sure
4. I understand they made a C compiler for flash - I would start with that and try to find code that ran a squeak image. How hard no idea.
Do you know what objects there are? I mean, If objects are what they are in other languages,that would allow you to create a scratch variable with the value new Image()
or new Sprite() or something like that,and control sprites on our own from a variable!
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#4 2009-06-08 17:59:43
Re: Questions about Scratch
Scratch does not do that. I was unclear if you were talking about scratch - or other langauges
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#5 2009-06-08 19:19:57
Re: Questions about Scratch
tcb wrote:
How hard would it be to create a Flash compiler for Scratch like you have with Java? Would it even be possible?
There is an alpha version of a Scratch>Flash player here. It doesn't seem like it has been worked on for a while, though.
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#6 2009-06-08 19:24:14
Re: Questions about Scratch
fullmoon wrote:
tcb wrote:
How hard would it be to create a Flash compiler for Scratch like you have with Java? Would it even be possible?
There is an alpha version of a Scratch>Flash player here. It doesn't seem like it has been worked on for a while, though.
it is actually broken now for some reason.
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#7 2009-06-13 01:05:12
Re: Questions about Scratch
fruit wrote:
fullmoon wrote:
tcb wrote:
How hard would it be to create a Flash compiler for Scratch like you have with Java? Would it even be possible?
There is an alpha version of a Scratch>Flash player here. It doesn't seem like it has been worked on for a while, though.
it is actually broken now for some reason.
It's a shame i didnt seee it while it was working...it seems it was for a bit!
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