Scratch

firedrake969_test wrote:

I'll take the course!

You can check it out now -- everything is already online except the MOOC framework.  http://bjc.berkeley.edu

Assuming this is on topic, Snap! is based on HTML/JS, right?

Right.  Runs everywhere, even on iPad!

bharvey wrote:

Paypal buttons

Don't we have a "link" block yet? 

bharvey wrote:

MathWizz wrote:

There's no way it supports cross-site references. If it did, we'd all be bankrupt. 

Why?  You still have to log in.

But I guess all those "pay with Paypal" buttons are just old fashioned links, not cross-site references.

@Jens: Someday we should implement active-media sprites that open a little iframe on the stage, so people can embed YouTube videos in their projects and so on.  That'd solve the send-Hardmath-to-Michigan problem, too, right?

yeah, but you still have to login on a foreign site *cough* keylogger *cough* 

btw, bharvey, did you see this? They already promote kodu, alice and scratch (of course...), maybe try to covince them to use Snap! 

roijac wrote:

did you see this?

Yes, we're already negotiating with them about maybe basing their planned after-school programming class on Snap! and BJC.

bharvey wrote:

PS Too bad you're not coming to SIGCSE, but I guess that would be a big trip.

I guess so. Who knows, maybe I'll submit a paper someday... 

roijac wrote:

but jens should make this block work outside snap.berkeley.edu first ;P

It does, if the other site permits us to cross-site reference.

bharvey wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

piano lessons with a teacher in Brooklyn

Over the net?  That's pretty cool.

I know, right? And since he's a genius he can actually catch one wrong note in a huge muddle of Liszt over Skype, just by looking at the notes and listening. It's pretty amazing. 

Hardmath123 wrote:

I know, right?

I've been smiling at this all day.  It sounds just like a kid!

[Hm:  I am a kid!]

I know, but most of the time you don't sound (at least in text) like one.

Sidharth wrote:

(sorry for offtopic)

@Hardmath123: I recall you saying that you took the AMC 10 recently. I took it too! How did you do?

I (somehow) got 121.5! I don't even remember answering enough questions to get that much, but hey… I personally am proud of what I did, considering I'm not too old and it's my first try. I'm happier about USATMS, though: a clean 60/75. 

Of course, I'm probably going to be obliterated at the AIME—I can barely get more than 6 problems, and judging from past years I'll need at least 8. And I don't have the stamina to spend 3 hours thinking without a cookie break.

How did you do? Also, if you don't mind me asking, where do you live? I think I may know you—and I just realized I may know one of your friends, adityasm9. At least, I used to know an Aditya with last initials SM. I'll get in touch with him.

Hardmath123 wrote:

Sidharth wrote:

(sorry for offtopic)

@Hardmath123: I recall you saying that you took the AMC 10 recently. I took it too! How did you do?

I (somehow) got 121.5! I don't even remember answering enough questions to get that much, but hey… I personally am proud of what I did, considering I'm not too old and it's my first try. I'm happier about USATMS, though: a clean 60/75. 

Of course, I'm probably going to be obliterated at the AIME—I can barely get more than 6 problems, and judging from past years I'll need at least 8. And I don't have the stamina to spend 3 hours thinking without a cookie break.

How did you do? Also, if you don't mind me asking, where do you live? I think I may know you—and I just realized I may know one of your friends, adityasm9. At least, I used to know an Aditya with last initials SM. I'll get in touch with him.

That's... amazing, not to mention the first try.

I've been taking AMC 10 since sixth grade, but my performance has been pretty constant, not too much preparing. I barely scraped into AIME, with a 108, but I usually can only solve 4 or 5 in those things.

I do, in fact, know an Aditya SM!      Does he live in the Phx, AZ area?

bharvey wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

Would you be fine with "mathy"?

Wait, are you Chinese?  I've never heard anyone use "fine" in that context except for my English-second-language ethnic-Chinese Berkeley students.

British English: "would you be fine with a beer?"
"Yes, that'd be fine thanks."

Used same as O.K. with.

OK, 3 things.

1) I've noticed in snap that certain parts of the screen seem to flicker and flash a bit. Does the morphic.js library use double buffered graphics? I think that's what's causing it.

2) I don't know why my block won't work. Here it is:

Recursive is defined like this:

It works when the item is in the list but not when it isn't. Can you help me?

3) There should be a way to re-order the blocks in the block palette.  Because I always find myself in situations where I plan to write an API involving several blocks, but halfway through the writing on one block i realize I need to write another block, which happens to fit in the same palette, so I end up with a few blocks as part of the API, then some seemingly unrelated block, then the rest of an API. So i want to be able to move the out-of-place block to another area where it fits better.

Last edited by joefarebrother (2013-02-27 11:08:59)

joefarebrother wrote:

It works when the item is in the list but not when it isn't. Can you help me?

How does it fail?  And, can you post the XML?