Scratch

kcarnold wrote:

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@06dknibbs: Did you see http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/SampleProjectsTeam/583769 or http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/WeirdF/678431 ?

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Ahh, not seen those but I have read 
It seems whenever I sit down and try scrolling, I can never think of something I want to make scroll O_o

This is a great idea Andrés! This will help a lot of Scratchers.

Would it be possible to have more than one script for a certain thing? You showed one way for gravity, but there are many ways to do it (of course, that's a good thing about Scratch!). It would be cool if people could select the different scripts and find the one that fits best.

The goals I would look for? Pretty much everything: it would be very interesting to see what is there. Though I am interested in the 'technical' aspects; like gravity, velocity, 'moving around several sprites for a person (I can't phrase it very well, but I mean like a person made up of several sprites that could move around and things like that)', realistic physics, and the such. Scrolling isn't exactly 'technical', but I'll include it.

What I would include: things that would be useful to the Scratch Community, new users or old. Of course, that includes gravity, velocity, custom displays (like health; people often use variables for displays when it's so easy to make your own), lives (it seems simple but some people don't know how), and more.
I would also program things that are useful but not many people know about. Plenty of people are learning about scrolling, but I'd put that in. And velocity scrolling as well. And more, of course.
Another thing is about the simple scripts but short. Like if you want a block that says 'previous costume', you could do it as '[switch to costume ((costume) - [1])] I think it would be good to include these tips and tricks.

For different names but same meaning, lives and points are a good example. I came up with "Lives", "How to do lives", "Script for lives", "Here's a script for lives", and more.

This is very interesting to me.

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2009-09-18 06:29:14)

Do we get to add our own scripts? I'd love to! 

I think it would be awesome! Instead of making all those crazy scripts for scrolling, you could just type scrolling. That would make things a lot easier.

12104404 wrote:

can anyone help glitch check my project so i can make it better with your help
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12104404/689502

This thread is not the thread for you, post a new topic in "all about scratch" instead.

I think this is a great idea. I hope one day this becomes a part of the program instead of just an experiment. 



What kinds of goals would you search for?

-Physics
-Scoreboards
-Smooth sprite walking
-Scrolling



What kinds of block stacks could you imaginge annotating?

-How to do vertical scrolling
-How to do horizontal scrolling
-How to do multidirectional scrolling
-How to do shooting
-How to do health
-How to do scoreboards
-How to do timers
-How to do gravity
-How to do sprite movement with gravty/friction



can you think of a few different ways people might use different words for the same goal or idea?

-How to do score/how to do points

-How to make a machinegun/ how to make multiple bullets


I hope this helps, scratch team. 

jacool wrote:

I think it's a good idea but only if it automaticly added a line in the description with credit to the scripts creator.

That's a good idea.
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I like the idea of this because: "Imagine, Program, Share."

Imagine - It helps new members get their imagination seen more.

Program - It helps with tricky scripts.

Share - It DEFIANTLY helps sharing *points to jacool's quote*

UM well... i know this isn't about the scratch forums but my scratch wont save my projects anymore!!! why?                                                                            

Last edited by Galacticfuzz (2009-10-09 17:17:11)

Galacticfuzz wrote:

UM well... i know this isn't about the scratch forums but my scratch wont save my projects anymore!!! why?                                                                            

Hey, GalacticFuzz, the 'Announcements' section of the forums aren't really good for asking for help with Scratch - you may want to try out posting your problem in the 'Troubleshooting' section of the forums. 

illusionist wrote:

Tell me what you think about this!

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5660/63747686.png

nice! Also, I would use this feature a LOT, because It would make making multiple scripts easier, with just a couple of clicks !!

Last edited by terminator68 (2009-10-30 12:12:02)

andresmh wrote:

We're experimenting with a new way of programming in Scratch and we want to know how you might use it. We need your feedback!

Here is the idea:
What if you could just type in what you wanted your sprite to do, and it found code that does it, written by other people? What if you could describe what your code does in plain English and share your techniques with others?

Here are some examples of code you could search for or share with others. Our current idea is you would annotate a stack of blocks by adding a little note around its hat block. These notes are a little different from comments because they mark which stack(s) you're describing. Also, comments usually tell how something works; with this it's just what it does.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8550/gravityj.png

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3030/scorex.png

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5094/l … mments.png

Our questions for you:
What kinds of goals would you search for? What kinds of block stacks could you imaginge annotating?

Can you think of a few different ways people might use different words for the same goal or idea? For example, you might annotate something as "keeping score" but someone else is searching for "counting points". What other examples can you think of?

After we collect helpful ideas we'll let some people try out this experimental version of Scratch.

A final note: this experiment is primariy for research and there are yet no plans to introduce this features in the next release. We will certainly learn from this to think about future additions to Scratch.

Thanks and Scratch on!

Seems like a very useful idea as long as people post valid scripts. Overall, I like the concept because it teaches us not only to work for ourselves, but each other too. Great idea!

It's cool that lots of people have thought about the idea and didn't just say "that's cool" or "that's stupid", but actually thought about how they could use it and what kinds of problems could come up. You all have many ways of thinking about the idea that I hadn't really thought of!

I've actually made a code search system for Scratch. It's not very refined yet, because I wanted to try out a rather unique idea about how to do it. Part of the reason it doesn't work well yet is that I just don't have much data about what code goes with what searches. But that's where you can help!

So if you're interested, could you try my user study? Go to http://kagu.media.mit.edu:54321/

It would help a lot if you could do it for couple of projects, and even maybe suggest some other projects I should add to the list.

When I get a chance, I'll post a link to a modified Scratch that has the code search integrated.

Just to be clear, this is just my personal project; my friends on the Scratch team helped me get connected with you all, but there's no plan yet to put this in the main Scratch. (But there are a lot of other cool things that will be going in soon, so don't be too disappointed!)

Thanks!
-Ken

PS - I've only tried the user study in Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8. If something doesn't work right in your browser, or if you're confused about anything at all, please post or email about it. Also, apologies in advance if it's slow or crashes -- just let me know and I'll fix it.

Last edited by kcarnold (2009-12-28 00:53:28)

adriangl wrote:

I think it would be awesome! Instead of making all those crazy scripts for scrolling, you could just type scrolling. That would make things a lot easier.

scrolling x only too!