Scratch

markyparky56 · 2010-02-06 08:02:02

Scratch is a very powerful tool, obviously hes been looking at the wrong things and not the frontpage.

WeirdF · 2010-02-08 12:13:34

jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game

Are you saying projects like this, this and this are just stupid slideshows? You have just seen a few slideshows and then made an incorrect generalization about the whole Scratch Community.

markyparky56 · 2010-02-09 16:16:58

WeirdF wrote:
jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game
Are you saying projects like this, this and this are just stupid slideshows? You have just seen a few slideshows and then made an incorrect generalization about the whole Scratch Community.

likely he did. Or he is just someone who came back to make a rubbish insult and left again.

Paddle2See · 2010-02-09 17:42:28

Mr_X wrote:
blaster395 wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:

I think if you look around the website some more you will find many people that have built quite complex projects in Scratch. To my knowledge, Scratch allows far more user interaction than Powerpoint - although I will admit that I haven't really pushed the limits of Powerpoint

Plus, Scratch has a cool cat mascot. Powerpoint has nothing even close, unless you want to count the talking paperclip (who remembers that monstrosity?).
Powerpoint has visualbasic built into it
I made a Internet browser in Powerpoint
Powerpoint > Scratch
An internet browser in PP? What a croc.... odile

Actually, this is quite possible. The MS Office tools have access to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which is quite flexible and powerful. I have used VBA in Excel to write full blown applications that had very little to do with a spreadsheet.

However, VBA is a text-based scripting language with syntax rules and lots of options that make it not as well suited for a teaching language as Scratch. It's pretty awesome as a way to extend the functionality of MS office applications though smile

Mr_X · 2010-02-09 18:09:43

So, what? This guy can program websites in powerpoint and yet he can't understand how to do Scratch?

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-09 20:01:23

I made a haunted house in powerpoint. And an escape game. That's what I do in computer science. Just sit there and make Power point games.

midnightleopard · 2010-02-09 20:21:06

jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game

I agree, but not nesicarily. People have been making alot of random slideshows lately, however new sensation RHY[insert lots of numbers here] has been making pw3nsome games lately.

markyparky56 · 2010-02-10 11:26:38

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
I made a haunted house in powerpoint. And an escape game. That's what I do in computer science. Just sit there and make Power point games.

That sounds so borring, i just sit in class and stare at the computer screen trying to work out why VB hates me.

Mr_X · 2010-02-10 11:28:52

midnightleopard wrote:
new sensation RHY[insert lots of numbers here]

LOL

markyparky56 · 2010-02-10 12:28:41

Mr_X wrote:
midnightleopard wrote:
new sensation RHY[insert lots of numbers here]
LOL

Its true!

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-10 16:03:13

markyparky56 wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
I made a haunted house in powerpoint. And an escape game. That's what I do in computer science. Just sit there and make Power point games.
That sounds so borring, i just sit in class and stare at the computer screen trying to work out why VB hates me.

Wrong class. Meant to put architecture. The teacher turns off the internet from time to time so people can actually get to work for once, and that's where PP is the greatest thing ever.

markyparky56 · 2010-02-10 16:10:22

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
markyparky56 wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
I made a haunted house in powerpoint. And an escape game. That's what I do in computer science. Just sit there and make Power point games.
That sounds so borring, i just sit in class and stare at the computer screen trying to work out why VB hates me.
Wrong class. Meant to put architecture. The teacher turns off the internet from time to time so people can actually get to work for once, and that's where PP is the greatest thing ever.

lol, nice.

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-10 17:51:29

The only thing you can do is click though. I don't think they make keyboard commands for power point.

Stickman704 · 2010-02-11 15:50:22

If you think about it even advaced stuff like flash is powerpoint. You are just putting a few frames together and adding some code. Scratch is mainly for children/kids to imagine.

Scratch has some pretty advanced neat tricks up it's sleeve. You can scroll. You can make some cool games.

Most of all you can achieve things. Although it's a rubbish game I spent about a week on my "Save rook" game. It may not be the best game in the world but I am pleased to have made it. It was an achievement for me.

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-11 17:40:10

If you actually thought about it, you'd see that Flash isn't at all like power point.

DartNMao · 2010-02-11 19:53:07

Paddle2See wrote:
jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game
I think if you look around the website some more you will find many people that have built quite complex projects in Scratch. To my knowledge, Scratch allows far more user interaction than Powerpoint - although I will admit that I haven't really pushed the limits of Powerpoint

Plus, Scratch has a cool cat mascot. Powerpoint has nothing even close, unless you want to count the talking paperclip (who remembers that monstrosity?).

True. If someone doesn't believe that, play this game by illusionist: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/illusionist/879463

That is all the proof you need, jlsadshead.

SnowGuy · 2010-02-15 22:30:21

blaster395 wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game
I think if you look around the website some more you will find many people that have built quite complex projects in Scratch. To my knowledge, Scratch allows far more user interaction than Powerpoint - although I will admit that I haven't really pushed the limits of Powerpoint

Plus, Scratch has a cool cat mascot. Powerpoint has nothing even close, unless you want to count the talking paperclip (who remembers that monstrosity?).
Powerpoint has visualbasic built into it
I made a Internet browser in Powerpoint
Powerpoint > Scratch

Yeah right...

Stickman704 · 2010-02-17 12:28:10

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
If you actually thought about it, you'd see that Flash isn't at all like power point.

Yeah I mean you can make Slideshows in flash. If you think about it the frames are the slides and then you can add a next button to go to the next frame.

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markyparky56 · 2010-02-17 14:36:23

Stickman704 wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
If you actually thought about it, you'd see that Flash isn't at all like power point.
Yeah I mean you can make Slideshows in flash. If you think about it the frames are the slides and then you can add a next button to go to the next frame.

yeah, but it'd be a bit more complex to do that than do it in scratch, as he said. I think you use actionscript for flash.

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-17 15:55:36

Someone make a Powerpoint program in scratch.

markyparky56 · 2010-02-17 16:05:11

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
Someone make a Powerpoint program in scratch.

you mean slide show? or one that has incoming animations and stuff?

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-17 17:04:37

Like a PP application. I'll make one too.

markyparky56 · 2010-02-20 05:18:59

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
Like a PP application. I'll make one too.

does it invole a lot of hyperlinking?

Greenboi · 2010-02-20 10:28:38

jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game

The Stu*idest thing I've ever heard on this forum. yikes

markyparky56 · 2010-02-23 12:28:30

Greenboi wrote:
jlsadshead wrote:
Scratch is pretty useless, people just make powerpoints and call it a game
The Stu*idest thing I've ever heard on this forum.

Im so tempted to actualy make a game, and call it "The Powerpoint Game"! lol

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