Scratch

andresmh · 2007-03-20 11:27:42

Hi Scratchers!

As the news about Scratch are spreading, it would be cool to have a place where we post news articles that mention Scratch. I hope we don't get slashdotted or digg because our server is not ready (yet) to handle such a flood of requests.

andresmh · 2007-03-20 12:02:43

Scratch challenge was to balance "simplicity and functionality." Redmond Developer News

andresmh · 2007-03-22 10:57:15

Dallas Channel 8 news presented Scratch as a "Do-it yourself video game builder". I grabbed the video and posted it on YouTube:

andresmh · 2007-05-14 22:02:16

"Free tool offers 'easy' coding" article from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6647011.stm

pross67 · 2007-05-26 19:55:57

Scratch on Ellen

I just happed to catch this. Did you guys (Scratch team) know about this?

I was watching the Ellen TV show with my wife and child last Friday (It was the last day of school, so give me a break). So there's a prodigy piano playing kid on. Ellen asks,
"Didn't you make some sort of computer program for me?" And they show a dacning Ellen animation from Scratch for a few seconds! The nice thing is that they played the animation from within the program, so you could see the interface, blocks, etc.

It was exciting to see. The piano prodigy should make a composotion in Scratch next.

Peter Ross
Computer Teacher
Columbia Grammar & Prep School, New York

kevin_karplus · 2007-05-27 01:11:23

Composing in scratch is not too hard, though good music would be tough without arrays to remember phrases. I have a little composing program you might like to look at for ideas:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/kevin_karplus/3185

Duncan · 2007-05-30 13:32:00

The new version of iTunes (version 7.2) includes iTunes U - a range of free material from a variety of universities.

The MIT section includes a piece called "Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society" with Mitchel Resnick during which he explains Scratch and the thinking behind it.

stratolab · 2007-05-30 14:43:19

Also the NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/technology/24program.html

kevin_karplus · 2007-06-03 20:38:46

The latest issue of Discover magazine has an excellent article on scratch in the Mind Games column by Scott Kim. Sorry about the incomplete citation, but the design of Discover Magazine is so lame that I can't find a date, volume, or issue number on it: not on the cover, not on the Table of Contents, not on the copyright page: clearly a magazine designed by TV people! This is the issue with "Science and Islam" on the cover.

Kim's column "Mind Games" on page 76 is good though---perhaps the Scratch team should commission him to do a series of Scratch puzzles for the scratch web site!

(I wonder, is this the same Scott Kim I knew in grad school at Stanford back in the 70s and early 80s?)

Mick · 2007-06-05 04:53:13

I can't go onto youtube because K9 web protection blocks it. sad

maximo · 2007-06-19 12:57:36

If you know to read Spanish you can read this article about Scratch:
Linux Magazine Spain
smile

adriangl · 2007-07-03 10:47:59

July 3,2007 Hi scratchers,
today i made history on scratch.I made 2,234 friends.and if you want to be my friend check out my homepage.username:adriangl.
Bye
sincerely,
adriangl

AngelEyra · 2007-07-23 15:18:41

This is unrelated (but not more unrelated than the post above this) but I only joined Scratch because of Discover magazine (learned what it was) and http://portablefreeware.com (prompted me to look at the site).

eyra

Jacobo · 2007-08-28 11:46:22

I learned about scratch in the discover magazine too. smile

Last edited by Jacobo (2007-08-28 11:47:08)

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