Scratch

Well, I used to LOVE to read Popular Science, especially the DIY (do-It-Yourself). Well, I saw in an old issue that there was designing your own stuff. Naturally, I asummed you would be using the computer (duh, it's Pop Sci). I saw that they had something about programming in the ocrner. They said Scratch is very simple, so I tried it, it seemed to hard,I saw they recommended something simpler (it was you have your picture that they make into a game) so I went back to Scratch, and, well, here I am

Last edited by Bluestribute (2008-07-04 00:58:14)

Um, well, one day, i was bored and i downloaded it, goodnight.

This is my Scratch Story:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Zelda123/93196

Yay! Sticky! Thank you Scratch Team and/or Moderators! 

Last edited by joeyman (2008-07-06 11:32:28)

I was at school, and bored, and right next to a computer. I saw a cat, and clicked it. I had a little bit of fun. I got very sick soon after. I had nothing to do. So, I googled Scratch to see if I could get it. I got it, started playing with it, and have been unable to stop since. Scratch is one of the most fun things I have ever tried!

My scratch story:

Last August i went to a video game maker camp but instead of scratch, they used Game Maker. I downloaded it and all of my friends started asking me to make them games. Then This april i went to another videogame making class and they use scratch.

The rest is history.

I have been looking for a free programming language for a long time but could never find the right one,gamemaker was too hard for me to understand.A few weeks ago i was on another forums and saw someone saying to go check this out,a link that leadme to scratch.

I am happy to be here meeting other scratchers and seeing tons of projects. 

Last edited by keroro645 (2008-07-14 19:19:18)

In January 2008, my dad sent me an e-mail providing a link to Scratch. I was into animation and had actually won an animation contest on CBC (true story). And I was sick of using movie maker and drawing animations frame by frame. My dad installed Macromedia Flash 8 and I had a bit of trouble with it. Then he installed Scratch and I started to get the hang of it. That's my Scratch story.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Lanie/214559

Here's mine:

I was programming a legal 'expert system' in Squeak for a set of lectures when Scratch was featured in the Squeak news with a notice that there was no way to reach the Squeak side of it. Since until then (and, in fact, still) I hadn't seen any 'real' applications made with Squeak I downloaded Scratch just to look at it. I was completely stunned by the professional appearance of the window and didn't even look at the blocks or the projects. Instead I was captivated by the 3d effect of the tab-buttons (where you switch from scripts to costumes and sounds), because in current Squeak there was no way to specify such tab-buttons to be 'outset'. I was so curious how the Scratch developers programmed these buttons that I started to fool around with Scratch aiming to cause an error message that would perhaps let me break into the source code. Well, I didn't succeed for a long time. Instead I found out what you can do with blocks and that really got me interested...

Much later, of course, long after I had finished my own application I found out that Scratch's tab buttons are not even 'programmed' to appear outset, but using a painted skin, something so simple and clever it didn't even occur to me before 

My youngest son actually showed me Scratch...he learned about it at his Computer Club.  I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and started messing around with it right away.  I was kind of hoping he would enjoy it too and he did play with it a bit.  But I'm the one who got hooked!

joeyman wrote:

How often does your son use Scratch now?

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