Scratch

bullelk12 wrote:

It's not as simple as a single word at all.

Yup, that's always been true.
However, it's still worthwhile to allow people to begin to understand the true difficulty and potential results of their programming. Scratch was indeed created for beginners, but it would be quite possible to simply ignore any text-based options if you don't understand them.

I agree that there should be some button that you can use to switch back and forth between the two formats. although scratch should be easy for beginners, for people who are used to java and stuff, but can't get the tech to make somthing nice, scratch would help if that feature was avaliable.

but for people who don't know the basic script, it would take longer because they don't know what to type to tell the computer what to do

OverPowered wrote:

text-based coding can be useful for long scripts, uploading scripts, and teaching potential programmers to understand text-based coding.

I can't help you with converting to flash code; but if you just mean a text-based version of the blocks used in Scratch, then try kurt. It's a working compiler/decompiler that can convert Scratch projects to and from the scratchblocks syntax used on the forums.

I'm not sure how a text-based language would help you transition from Scratch to "proper" languages — and Kurt uses the same text as found on the actual Scratch blocks themselves, like the forum block plugin does — but it certainly gives you advantages (1) and (2): you can use copy/paste, tools like find/replace, and have all the power of plain text.