I have started revising the scratch notes for parents and teachers that I wrote a while ago. I had realised that sample projects are needed for novice programmers to try out and am now working on a selection of projects with fulll notes for the trainers (parents/teachers/older children).
The first sample project - a game called Fish! is available with full documentation to help you build it up (from scratch). Please take a look at http://www.redware.com/scratch/fish.html and let me know if it is useful or any ideas on how I can improve the notes with the requirements of trainers in mind.
Thanks.
Stamati Crook
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You can play fish! at http://www.redware.com/scratch/playfish.html or http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/redware/73261 and I forgot to mention that I think http://www.friv.com is a good inspiration for scratch games.
Last edited by redware (2007-12-28 10:52:07)
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After some field testing, we conclude that the second half of the tutoral is too complex for beginners. Also children do not like to read text, so although fish! can help the teacher, the teacher still need to communicate or prepare notes for the kids.So maybe the next samle will be simpler with a video instructon.
If you have taken a look at fish! and can provide any feedback or ideas on how to make samples more useful for computer clubs then please comment. Not all kids have the gumption to go onlne and break apart other people's projects.
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I now have a simpler game called dog and crab for teaching purposes. If you are doing a game you really need a forever loop and some broadcasting in there and although these are pretty advanced topics for a beginner programmer - that is what you need for a game and dog and crab is a very simple example.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/redware/92622
See also notes at http://www.redware.com/scratch/ .
Last edited by redware (2008-02-16 17:57:56)
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