Scratch

Scratcher M.A.G
Editor's Note
Hi everyone, and welcome to the new, Scratcher MAG. Here you can vote for stuff, ask for interviews, or just view this! So...about that interview thing. I have been getting a lot of request's for me to interview them. So what I am going to do is, I am going to keep lightnin's interview up there, but every week I will pick two people to interview. There interview will be shown here.

And that means that every week I will take off two and replace them with this weeks two. Because I don't want my Magazine to be covered up with interviews.

Thanks!
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Updates:
March 17: Everything in the magazine turns green to celebrate St. Patricks day!
March 15: 1000 views!
March 3: 100 views!
March 3: After almost a week of planning/designing the Magazine is brought to the eyes of the public!
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Welcome to the scratch magazine. Please don't say I copied you.

These are the sections:

1. Interviews
2. Chuck Norris
3. Scratchblocks We Need
4. Polls
5. Fun Facts
6. Quotes
7. Cool Photos
8. Credits[/color]
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This is something I am trying new. This is the Stupid Law of the Week! Inspired by Borrego6165 thread.

Daily Stupid Laws:

Dumb California Laws
You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.

Updated March 17
If you want your law featured here, leave you joke in the reply section BELOW. Thanks.
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Scratch News
This section is currently under construction. Thanks.
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1. Interviews

If you want to be interviewed just say so down below.

Interview with Lightnin

Q. 1. When you joined Scratch, did you have any idea that you were going to become part of the Scratch Team?

A. 1. When I first joined, I didn't think I'd join the Scratch Team. I just thought it was a really cool tool, and enjoyed making some projects with it. I got more interested the more I Scratched.


Q. 2. What do like most about being part of this community?

A. 2. I really like that Scratchers are such a friendly and welcoming group of people - that seems like an important quality for an informal learning environment like the Scratch community. For people to learn to make awesome stuff with Scratch, they have to like the place, feel welcome, and know that if they get stuck, they can ask for help and get it. Scratchers are really good at helping each other out. Seeing examples of that makes me feel honored to work on the Scratch project.


Q. 3. What do spend more time on, the forums, or the main site?

A. 3. I spend most of my time on the main site, as do like 90% of the Scratchers who participate in the community as a whole - (something that's easy to forget if you hang out a lot on the forums). But I like the ideas that get tossed around and developed in the forums (esp. collab forum, suggestions, and Help with Scripts).


Q. 4. How active are you on the Scratch Community?

A. 4. Pretty active - I'm usually on at least once a day, although I don't always comment / post.

Thanks Lightnin!


Interview with Mewkid

Q. What do spend most time on, the forums, or the main site?

A. The main site. I was not really aware of the forum's existence until a couple months ago. I like the forums, but I prefer the main site. After all, isn't that what matters?

Q. Where did you find out about Scratch?

A. My friend showed it to me when I was nine years old. She will never live down the fact that I am still a better scratcher.

Q. What do you love most about Scratch, besides the fact that this is such a friendly site?

Friendly? Well, most of the time. I guess I love the way that kids and even adults kind of come together on a site where you're not judged by your age, but by your skills. I guess I get kind of abused because I'm [removed-please don't let out personal information] on some other sites, but here, since I'm a (not to toot my own horn,) pretty good programmer, it doesn't matter anymore. Plus, I adore programming. Case closed.

Thanks Mewkid


Interview with Borrego6165

Q.Where did you first hear about Scratch?

A. Well, I first heard about Scratch when my ICT teacher saw my power-point games. I would spend ages making a stop-motion animated game where each animation was a separate slide, and you would use the cursor to guide your little stick man. God- The Adventures of Stick! There was also the Skateboard Madness games, where you would be on a skateboard and you would have to jump over obstacles. If you jumped too early or too late you would die! Ha- god that was hard. It would go at a rate of 5 slides per second, and you had to click on the arrow which was a hyper-link. Jump too early or late, it lead to the "die" slide. Click on one of three slides and you would see a jumping animation. I somehow got a boss level working for The Adventures of Stick. The monster would throw huge boulders at you which you would dodge, then you would jump in the air, shoot it, and win! I wished I knew scratch back then, I had decent imagination but no real programming skills. I now have the latter, but my games are now boring. Still, I will be looking to try and remake them in the future- so expect that very soon scratchers!

Q.What do spend more time on, the forums, or the main site?

A. Defiantly the forums! When I come on I open all the threads into new tabs, then look through each one! I skip a few, the ones I do look at are announcements, help with scripts, show and tell, collaboration, requests and questions about scratch. There isn't really much to do on the main site, once you've uploaded a project and played a couple that's it, whereas in the forums you can get up to loads!

Q.What do you love most about the Scratch Community?

A. Whilst the scratch team are considerate, patient and offering help and improvements all the time, I have wondered why front paged projects get so many views (like 10,000) but yet forum threads rarely get that amount unless they're made by the scratch team. I do think that scratchers spend too much time just login on, viewing the front page then coming off again, or perhaps quickly bumping up one of their advertisements in show and tell and not even glancing at the other posts. I hope it's just laziness and not selfishness that they rarely help with the forums or get involved.

Q.What improvements do you think the Scratch Team should make to the website?

A. They certainly need to make more scratchers get involved rather than just being passive. Also, perhaps if New Scratchers were limited to say 8MB per project, Scratchers were limited to 10MB, and any "master scratchers" (who will remain un-named on their status, so it will still say "scratcher" so that normal scratchers aren't ignored) can get say 12 to 15MB. This would allow far more freedom with projects!

Thanks Borrego6165


Interview with Ricarose

Q. When you joined Scratch, did you have any idea you were going to be part of the Scratch Team?

A. I joined Scratch in May 2007 when it first launched! I didn't know I would be a member of the Scratch Team a few years later.

Q. How has the Scratch Programming Language changed you?

A. Scratch has encouraged me to be even more expressive and creative with programming.   

Q. What do you love most about the scratch community besides the fact that it is such a friendly place?

A. I love meeting all the amazing Scratchers from around the world and getting to interact with and learn from their creations.

Thanks ricarose


Interview With undefeatedgames

1. What do you spend more time on, the forums, or the main site?

Actually it's half and half.


2. Where did you first hear about scratch?

Believe it or not, I actually did not hear about this in a Scratch class, but in a Lego Robotics class. We were goofing off on the computer and I asked my teacher what the software with the cat was called. She said it was Scratch, a game designing software, and gave me the link. Since then, I've been hooked!


3. What do you love about the scratch community, besides the fact that it is such a friendly environment?

Probably because they are just like me and they will help you whenever you ask. It's a great place!

Thanks undefeatedgames
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2. Chuck Norris
Vote for what you think is the funniest Chuck Norris Joke

When Alexander Bell invented the telephone he had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris
0 Stars

Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is chlaustraphobia, fear of Chuck Norris is called Logic
1 Star

Chuck Norris doesn't call the wrong number. You answer the wrong phone.
[Cancel rating]

Chuck Norris won American Idol using only sign language
0 Stars

There used to be a street named after Chuck Norris, but it was changed because nobody crosses Chuck Norris and lives.
0 Stars

Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Chuck Norris stories.
0 Stars

Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.
0 Stars

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3. Scratchblocks We Need

Put down below any Scratch blocks you think the Scratch Team should add to the Scratch Programing language

jump

clone                           

if touching color [] jump

if touching color [] clone

fall over

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4. Polls
Vote below on the one. For example:
A. 2

A. Have you ever thrown something at the TV?
   1. Yes, it was fun!|
   2. Yes. but I broke it *Sigh*.|
   3. Never in my entire life will I or have.| 2 Vote
   4. No, but I really want to.|2 Votes

B. How Many Countries Have You Traveled to?
   1. None!|
   2. One|
   3. Two or Three|3 Votes
   4. More Than Three| 1 Vote

C. Which is your favorite sport?
   1. Baseball|
   2. American Football|
   3. Basketball
   4. Soccer|1 Vote
   5. Golf| 3 Votes
   6. Hockey|
   7. Hate Sport!!!!|
   8. Any sport really!|

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5. Fun Facts

Please leave down below any fun facts you might want to add.
Also, I do vote for these my self, 5 stars being the best.

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
4 Stars

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
3 Stars

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
3 Stars

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
5 Stars

A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
4 Stars

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A male baboon can kill a leopard.
4½ Stars

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
4 Stars

A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
5 Stars

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
4½ Stars

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
4 Stars

A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
3 Stars

A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
4 Stars

A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
3 Stars

A shrimp's heart is in its head.
5 Stars

A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
4½ Stars

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
3 Stars

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6. Quotes
I rate these out of 5 stars.

1. If you die in an elevator, be sure to press the 'up' button.
4 Stars

2.Yesterday was history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that if why they call it the present.
5 Stars

3. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
3½ Stars

4. The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
4 Stars

5. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
4½ Stars

6. The road to success is always under construction.
5 Stars

7. When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
4 Stars

8. Suppose I should stay for a while. Won't be long, though.
3½ Stars

9. The happy friendship ending?
2 Stars

10. No sign of life, it's only us here.
3 Stars

11. If you work with your hands, you'll never go hungry but you'll never be rich.
3 Stars

12. While you have a point, you should probably know that everything has to do with awesomeness. Especially mine.
4 Stars

13. The genetic scientists just called. They've invented flying pigs.
4½ Stars
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Cool Photos
Credit to wolvesstar97.

The World
Galaxy+black hole
Stars
A galaxy
Another galaxy.
A false-color galaxy

Pipes:

Awesome Pipes
Steel Pipes
Steel Pipes Posterized
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Just so everybody knows, I will not be making a new one of these every single week. If you want to rate something, just leave it below and I will update this.
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Credits:
Joletole
wolvesstar97

Thanks!

Last edited by joletole (2012-03-29 06:50:29)