Scratch

Well, a hide list is not even possible right now...

And remember, this program was originally for 5 year olds 

veggieman001 wrote:

But you still have to make the blocks, and I don't think you'll be able to share the blocks.

From what I've heard it'll all be online, so you can share the blocks and it'll look like any other project.

my-chemical-romance wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

But you still have to make the blocks, and I don't think you'll be able to share the blocks.

From what I've heard it'll all be online, so you can share the blocks and it'll look like any other project.

Yes, but people can take scripts anyway.

samtwheels wrote:

Custom functions are in most real programming languages, so this should actually help bridge the gap.

This as well.

jackrulez wrote:

It'll be like Snap (BYOB, whatever), where the custom blocks are basically shortcuts for longer sequences of blocks.

What is the point of this though? Can't we have what most programming languages have, a -/+ sign next to parent blocks, like "If" for example could have everything inside it hidden.

Moving aside recursion and all the important things you can do with it, it also makes things less cramped on-screen. For me, I'm always bothered if the screen is cluttered (too many tabs open, too many blocks, etc) so this would be really nice for me. Plus, you still have to program the block itself, but this just makes it easier to copy blocks.

Also, you can already see all the scripts by downloading, and if you were really lazy, you could probably just make a program entirely out of things other people made or drew and not place a single block. This just makes it somewhat easier to do so.

my-chemical-romance wrote:

I'd like to see a compile to block function, so I could set a selection into 1 block, otherwise I see it as more of a shortcut. I really do hope that there's a text editor in Scratch 2.0, as sometimes blocks lag and it all gets confusing. I guess I'm not really fond of shortcuts, although it'd be nice if it was more of a Scratchception type of thing, programming the block itself out of blocks.

You do program the blocks out of other, existing blocks.
It's just like functions in other programs. It comes with a built in set, it's up to you to put it together the write way. If you have lots of very similar, or exactly similar, code, put it in a function.

ImagineIt wrote:

kayybee wrote:

Well, a hide list is not even possible right now...

And remember, this program was originally for 5 year olds 

http://stats.scratch.mit.edu/community/usersbyage.html

Where did all of the teenagers come from????

I don't know...

but anyways...

lifelong kindergarten group or something

ImagineIt wrote:

kayybee wrote:

Well, a hide list is not even possible right now...

And remember, this program was originally for 5 year olds 

http://stats.scratch.mit.edu/community/usersbyage.html

Where did all of the teenagers come from????

There is 69 year olds on scratch 

veggieman001 wrote:

Agentpieface wrote:

ImagineIt wrote:

http://stats.scratch.mit.edu/community/usersbyage.html

Where did all of the teenagers come from????

There is 69 year olds on scratch 

Some people lie about their age though, and there could be grandparents.

And how is that a bad thing? o.O

well.. I think you know..

veggieman001 wrote:

Agentpieface wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Some people lie about their age though, and there could be grandparents.

And how is that a bad thing? o.O

well.. I think you know..

Not really...

k. it doesnt matter. bai.

BYOB actually makes it more similar to a text-based programming language. Creating your own block acts as a 'function', quite similar to what is used in text-based programming languages. These functions take up less space and times, they can be easily used multiple times. I think, in fact, all of these advances can make Scratch more sophisticated.