Scratch

I am going to try to stay on for a long time, my goal is to make an awesome game that has a lot of good feedback and top loved and top viewed or featured. Something big. And that will probably take like a year so I will probably be on for a long time. But I may take small breaks. I love Scratch!

I'll stay til I die. NO ONE is gonna hack my account and make me quit. They'd have to do it over MY DEAD BODY >:(

Last edited by Rainstorm2 (2009-11-26 08:56:59)

Lucario621 wrote:

I probably won't leave for a long time. If I find a really nice website with other addictions and/or I learn a new programming language, than I might leave.

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Chrischb wrote:

I'll leave on December 21, 2012.

No, just kidding.

That's my 18th birthday ;D

from the article from comm. of the ACM (cacm) (it is linked to on the home page):

Cacm article wrote:

We plan to keep our primary focus on lowering the floor and widening the walls, not raising the ceiling. For some Scratchers, especially those who want to pursue a career in programming or computer science, it is important to move on to other languages.

So, I think that I will have to move on to another language. One of the things that is hard though is finding the right language. I have not had much success in finding a language which is better than scratch for most things, except for when it comes to Speed, matrix operations, mathematical features, and things such as flooding, subs, and functions, recursion, etc. which I don't use all of the time. So far, I haven't really found a FREE program that is like scratch other than the BYOB 2.0 and such. And I want to be able to share them.
However, when I do move on, I will most likely still use Scratch. I love Scratch. It is possible that I might even go to MIT and join the Scratch Team (maybe...). What I love about Scratch (one of the things at least) is how quickly and easily you can create a program from... well, scratch (or nothing)! While it might take several lines of code to create a program to have a ball [blocks] <move( 5 )steps> [/blocks] in some other language, where you might need to make a sub or something that looks sort of like this:

SUB move (steps) steps ; use (xposition,yposition,direction)    !see "use (sub)"
    OPTION ANGLE DEGREES    !use degrees instead of radians
    Let xposition=xposition+steps*sin(direction)
    Let yposition=yposition+steps*cos(direction)
END SUB

! "use (sub)": when used after a sub "SUB sub(var1)name ; use (var2,var3)",
!     the variables are taken from the main program without being mentioned when sub
!     is called

and then having to say "CALL move (5) steps" whenever it is used, and having to TYPE it all, takes up a lot of time spent on tedious syntax, instead of easily manipulating actual variables and such. And Debugging is so frustrating. So, whenever possible, for quick projects, I would like to use Scratch.

But, I inevitably must move on one day.

The-Whiz wrote:

I haven't made a project in over two weeks, as some of you have noticed.

I take 2-7 month gaps between projects. 

I don't know when I'll quit, whenever I get bored of it I guess. I've decided to learn C++, but I'm still at the very basics and not done with scratch yet.

Last edited by hmnwilson (2009-12-05 14:48:55)

hmnwilson wrote:

The-Whiz wrote:

I haven't made a project in over two weeks, as some of you have noticed.

I take 2-7 month gaps between projects. 

I don't know when I'll quit, whenever I get bored of it I guess. I've decided to learn C++, but I'm still at the very basics and not done with scratch yet.

I used to make one once a day...

I am not going to leave scratch *Its in a forever loop that!

* at the start means recommended.