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#1 2008-06-11 00:48:15

andresmh
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Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xMsPHpOnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I haven't read it, I just found out about it. I saw that the cover has the images of tons of projects from our website!

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#2 2008-06-11 04:47:15

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Cool, one of my projects is on a book cover!  I went to Amazon where it states that the book is not yet released.

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#3 2008-06-11 05:52:49

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Nice! I would love one of these things. My games aren't in the cover though. Who wrote it? Someone on the scratch team?This is pretty sweet.

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#4 2008-06-11 08:50:55

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

I spotted a few of my projects. I wonder what topics the book covers.

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#5 2008-06-11 12:17:10

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

None of my projects are on the cover...

I'm going to ask my daddy to pre-order it  big_smile  It looks very intresting, and I'm sure Daddy would like to look at it too  smile

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#6 2008-06-11 18:15:40

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Nice. I wouldn't be surprised if it lists actual code from your projects.

Though I'm not sure teens are attracted to books that say "for teens," even if it is in a funky tagger script  smile

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#7 2008-06-12 01:22:08

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

The author is not part of the Scratch Team by the way.

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#8 2008-06-12 01:29:03

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

chalkmarrow wrote:

Though I'm not sure teens are attracted to books that say "for teens,"

Exactly! It should say something like: Scratch for Pros. Or, better yet (if it were for grown-ups): Scratch for Dummies  smile

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#9 2008-06-12 01:32:34

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

I might get it if they had like a description about it. Is it like simple stuff or really advanced stuff, or both? And is it word or pictures?

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#10 2008-06-12 11:48:54

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

The table of contents (from B&N) looks pretty good:

Introduction Part I
Scratch Basics Chapter 1
Introducing Scratch Chapter 2
Getting Comfortable with the Scratch Development Environment Chapter 3
A Review of the Basic Components of Scratch Projects Chapter 4
Making the Kitty Dance - A Quick Scratch Project Part II
Learning How to Write Scratch Programs Chapter 5
Moving Things Around Chapter 6
Sensing Sprite Position and Controlling Environmental Settings Chapter 7
Storing and Retrieving Data Chapter 8
Doing a Little Math Chapter 9
Conditional and Repetitive logic Chapter 10
Changing the Way Sprites Look and Behave Chapter 11
Spicing things Up with Sounds Chapter 12
Drawing Lines and Shapes

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#11 2008-06-12 13:24:52

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Hmmm... that looks good, but I already know those things. If they had maybe like different gravity and scrolling methods, I may have taken a look

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#12 2008-06-12 15:16:19

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

There is a 0% chance im in it.OH WELL!  smile

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#13 2008-06-12 21:43:04

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

I found one of mine

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#14 2008-06-13 12:25:14

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

How do you find out if one of yours is in it?  hmm

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#15 2008-06-13 12:59:20

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

tms5 wrote:

How do you find out if one of yours is in it?  hmm

I don't think anybody knows what projects are in it since the book hasn't been released yet.  What people can tell if any of their projects are on the cover of the book, by looking very carefully at the picture of it.

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#16 2008-06-13 13:48:57

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

hey scratch team, you must at least know the guy because you can sue him for righting the book without any permission, but I'd doubt you'd do that

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#17 2008-06-15 12:29:43

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

dingdong: people don't need permission to write a book about Scratch. Have you seen that our motto is "imagine, program, share" ?  smile

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#18 2008-06-15 12:31:08

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

andresmh wrote:

dingdong: people don't need permission to write a book about Scratch! Have you seen that our motto is "imagine, program, share" ?

lol, I didn't realize you meant EVERYBODY. Personally, I thought it was just like sharing projects and such

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#19 2008-06-15 12:50:46

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Bluestribute wrote:

andresmh wrote:

dingdong: people don't need permission to write a book about Scratch! Have you seen that our motto is "imagine, program, share" ?

lol, I didn't realize you meant EVERYBODY. Personally, I thought it was just like sharing projects and such

Exactly what I thought/

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#20 2008-06-16 05:17:05

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

I think the creator of that book should at least post something about it here, not?

Btw, one of my projects is on the cover...

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#21 2008-06-16 10:09:04

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

JSO wrote:

Btw, one of my projects is on the cover...

Really? I only recognize one project, and that would be duck hunt.

Yeah, I think they should've written a letter to the Scratch team or something along those lines. Maybe made an account, 'least.

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#22 2008-06-16 10:47:55

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

Whoever made it has to be a scratch member with great knowledge on how the scripts work and such. With a little bit of investigation we may be able to figure out who the author is.

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#23 2008-06-16 10:48:59

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

The writer of the book is Jr. Jerry Lee Ford. By searching, it seems like this person has an account on Scratch: scratch.mit.edu/users/TheCaptain

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#24 2008-06-16 10:53:30

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

JSO wrote:

The writer of the book is Jr. Jerry Lee Ford. By searching, it seems like this person has an account on Scratch: scratch.mit.edu/users/TheCaptain

Yeah. How can he be making a book about scratch when his only project is the scratch cat on a white background with no scripts? That is not right. You think the book is going to have like no information and it is just going to be a marketing scam?

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#25 2008-06-16 11:09:35

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Re: Scratch Programming for Teens - The Book

JSO wrote:

The writer of the book is Jr. Jerry Lee Ford. By searching, it seems like this person has an account on Scratch: scratch.mit.edu/users/TheCaptain

How do you know which account he has?

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