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bharvey wrote:

EDIT:  Certainly all the Community Moderators should come, hint hint.

I live on a different continent…

Hardmath123 wrote:

I have finished LOTR, though. 

Yeah, it says so in your sig. 

But you did get far enough in HP to know what parseltongue is!

You coming to Barcelona?

Okay guys, about the Barcelona conference: I'm really, really serious that I want you all to submit proposals of the work you've been doing. Be sure not to miss the new deadline, which is March 15, and upcoming shortly! The good thing is that you don't have to submit anything fancy, not a scientific paper, just a short description of the project you've been working on and what you're going to show. Since I know your projects I also know and can tell that they're all for real.

Here's the thing: I think you've done *very* fantastic work, and that projects the likes of

    * YPR->Snap
    * Snapin8or
    * Snap-nxt
    * Kurt

are simply amazing, much more impressive than many projects presented by adult researchers. So, these projects are super cool and interesting as such, not because you're kids. I bet there will *huge* interest in the Snap-nxt extension, because everybody at the conference is going to go nuts about robotics. We have tons of sessions about Enchanting, NXT and Robots such as the Finch, and here we have technoboy with an actual polished and mature project which is basically an Enchanting-killer. Plus, technoboy can tell us how he did it, how you can write your own hardware extension for anything! You have to realize that this going to spark widespread interest among many, many conference participants.

Then we have all those curriculum developers for Scratch and BYOB. We *have* to offer them a perspective how they can reuse all the work they've already done and a strategy how to migrate to newer versions of Scratch and Snap. And this is where YPT->Snap, Snapin8or and Kurt come in!

So, please, please submit something soon, all of you! I would suggest a Poster/Demo and a Lightening presentation for each of your projects, and I would myself take the liberty to suggest a panel discussion with all of you (err, all of us) together onstage.

Last edited by Jens (2013-03-12 02:52:07)

bharvey wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

I have finished LOTR, though. 

Yeah, it says so in your sig. 

Oh yeah, I forgot you actually read our sigs… 

But you did get far enough in HP to know what parseltongue is!

I never said I didn't.

You coming to Barcelona?

See above post? 

Can you play a short (maximum 5-minute) video?

Also, I got a nice UI for the Mac app done. Should I export .xml or .snap files? 

a video would be great. You can name the files with any extension you want, doesn't have to be named ".xml". In fact, we might think about officially naming them something else. Any thoughts / suggestions?

   * projects: xpr
   * sprites: xsp
   * blocks: xlb

or would you rather use *.snap ?

Jens wrote:

a video would be great. You can name the files with any extension you want, doesn't have to be named ".xml". In fact, we might think about officially naming them something else. Any thoughts / suggestions?

   * projects: xpr
   * sprites: xsp
   * blocks: xlb

or would you rather use *.snap ?

I vote .snap, because you should be able to infer the type of project/block/sprite from the XML.

Hardmath123 wrote:

joefarebrother wrote:

Snap! suggestion:

Checkboxes in context menus of blocks!
When they are checked, the name of the parameter would appear in brackets in the block text, otherwise it would look normal. For example, the <() = ()> and <() contains ()> blocks could have a "case sensitive" option, <<> and <>>and <<> or <>> could have a "short circuit" option, and rings could have a "last argument varadic" option! You could also select "Context-menu check box" as one of the input types for a block. It would have boolean value.

I'm suggesting this because I've had to make lots of blocks look ugly by including a boolean parameter.

Though this would be pretty useful, I think it's kind of overkill. How about being able to define dropdowns on the fly? You just need to add a new form in which you can add options, and toggle that when you select input type as "dropdown". You should also be able to choose from existing dropdowns %…s.

No, i mean you right click on the block and along with "duplicate", "delete", and "help" you would have a checkbox labeled "case-sensitive", "lazy", "variadic", ect.

blob8108 wrote:

joefarebrother wrote:

Checkboxes in context menus of blocks!

Does that make it not obvious from looking at the block what it does?

Yeah—does it display the choice on the block? If not, it could cause a lot of confusion.

On the other hand, excessively long blocks with pointless <true> or <false> inputs are also kind of painful. Maybe a checkbox input that shows up directly on the block? 

Amending my earlier statements about Barcelona:
It's not a definite 'yes' that I'm going, but it's not an absolute 'no.' My parents and I are taking this one step at a time. 

Presumably it's okay to submit a proposal, even if we're not sure we can come?

roijac wrote:

I dare you not to show M30W in your presentation 

I'll try my best 

My email address is all over Snap!, in the source code and probably all over the web anyway. Hint: In Snap! click on the logo and then on "About..." there it is!

Yes, it's okay to submit a proposal without being sure whether you're coming. Many people only decide that they'll come if their proposals are accepted. After your proposal is accepted you'll be given time to register for good - then you'll *have* to come, otherwise, if you don't register within a certain time after being accepted, we'll reject your proposal again. See, it's easy!