Scratch

Well, the history behind me finding out about Scratch is a long story, but I'll shorten it a little:

I sat down miserably at my desk, I loved ICT but I just wasn't prepared for this kind of thing, it was going to be boring I knew. "Class, have you ever wondered how traffic lights work? Obvisouly a man doesn't just sit there turning each color green to amber. Traffic Lights are programmed." My Teacher said. This was starting to make me wonder what we were about to learn. "So, for our ICT topic we are focusing on Programming, and we are going to use a program called 'Scratch'." My Teacher then explained. "With Scratch you can create games and animations." She said. Something just clicked, this sounded so interesting, so when the bell went, I ran home logging onto my computer and immediately downloaded scratch. The next week, I showed my teacher what I have created. "Wow! This is brilliant, do you mind if I share this with the class?" She asked. "No! Please, I don't want a fuss." I said, but she showed them anyway. And so there it is...

Good question.. actually, I forget..

ICT teacher at school

In an after school programming club.

Gifted teacher in 4th grade. We were given 3 options for a school project: Pivot Stickfigure Animator, Scratch, or Alice. I chose Pivot Stickfigure animator. Then my friend (on scratch, guyinc, just made his account) showed me scratch. I downloaded it when I got home. I loved it. My friend did too, but he never cared to upload till about a month ago. I joined a year after I was introduced, he has had it since 1.3 came out!

Last edited by chanmanpartyman (2012-04-15 21:47:27)

joletole wrote:

I wanted to scratch my back, so I looked up on google how to scratch and this website popped up.

LOL 

I was taking a course on science and engineering last summer and we were using scratch for part of the day. I created a scratch account last September or so but I never did anything until Magnie's chat.py came out. People were talking about the scratch website and it then occurred to me that I wasn't doing anything on my account. I started doing stuff and that is the whole story!

LOL all of your "I got introduced at school stories" Reminded me of something. I was doing a PowerPoint computer graphics class after school, and on the last day, out teacher surprised us by saying "Today, I will teach you how to import your graphics from PowerPoint to Scratch." We were working in groups of three, and I was working with the friend who introduced me to scratch originally, and another friend who knew nothing about it. We got to work creating sprites for the "game" we had planned on making, and imported them into scratch. We decided that we were going to make a scrolling game, which was ironic because I was the only one who actually knew how to scroll. So while everyone else was making there sprites walk across the screen and say "hello" as they bounced off the walls and turned upside down, I was sitting at the computer, trying to explain the concept of scrolling to the very person who introduced me to scratch. After I left the class, I swear I cracked up. 

In school. I needed help for my first project (still isn't online yet, I'm new) and created account.
The project is still ongoing in school. It only started 2 months ago. 

Same as Zangooser.

I heard of scratch from my school and got really interested in it...by the way, I am not sure if this should be in the New Scratcher Forums...you might want to ask a moderator to move this thread into another category. Sorry for the inconvenience