Scratch

You can find many tutorials on the Scratch Wiki. You can also ask around the forums for help, many people would be glad to be of service. 
Edit: You can also use Scratch cards.

Last edited by scimonster (2011-04-20 04:08:03)

illusionist wrote:

scimonster wrote:

You can find many tutorials on the Scratch Wiki. You can also ask around the forums for help, many people would be glad to be of service. 
Edit: You can also use Scratch cards.

Those things are useless. 

I learned by my own experimentation, and carefully examining how other users make projects. 

Yes, I agree with illusionist. As for you, samliem, scratch is the right tool for just about anything. I think that your son will LOVE scratch. 99% of the people on scratch are kids, so I wouldn't worry about him not being able to learn it. As I said, rather than using a user guide, your son should just experiment and look at the coding of other projects. Happy Scratching!

illusionist wrote:

scimonster wrote:

You can find many tutorials on the Scratch Wiki. You can also ask around the forums for help, many people would be glad to be of service. 
Edit: You can also use Scratch cards.

Those things are useless. 

I learned by my own experimentation, and carefully examining how other users make projects. 

+1

I remember a topic a while back about teaching Scratch to kids. Though yes, you would be able to teach Scratch to your children. The first thing I made was an animation. A good place for educators would be here: http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ You might be able to get some information from there. 

LOL, none of you guys bothered to give samliem the link to the user guide and video tutorials, which is what samliem wanted in the first place. 

@samliem: The link to the user guide, video tutorials, and other learning tools can be found here. 

Scratch is a relatively easy programming language to master, so I believe your son will be able to learn Scratch. You can have your son watch the video tutorials to see Scratch being used before having him dive right into using Scratch itself. Alternatively, your son can download a few projects off the website and analyze the blocks to see how they work; there are even some sample projects included with the Scratch software already, and I would encourage you to have your son look at those projects and play around with them to see how coding in Scratch works. 

cheddargirl wrote:

LOL, none of you guys bothered to give samliem the link to the user guide and video tutorials, which is what samliem wanted in the first place. 

@samliem: The link to the user guide, video tutorials, and other learning tools can be found here. 

Scratch is a relatively easy programming language to master, so I believe your son will be able to learn Scratch. You can have your son watch the video tutorials to see Scratch being used before having him dive right into using Scratch itself. Alternatively, your son can download a few projects off the website and analyze the blocks to see how they work; there are even some sample projects included with the Scratch software already, and I would encourage you to have your son look at those projects and play around with them to see how coding in Scratch works. 

I don't like the Scratch Documentation Site, it crashes my comp.