Scratch

jblumen · 2008-03-03 00:27:02

Does scratch have the ability to prompt a user and then read user input?

I'm looking for the scratch equivalent of this in perl:

# greeting - read the user name and
# echo it back in a greeting!
# input
print "please enter your name: ";
$users_name = <STDIN> ;
# output
print "This is a program to greet ";
print $users_name;
print "on this course\n";

archmage · 2008-03-03 00:30:57

Unfortunately, you can't prompt a user to enter in words like in your example code.

Mayhem · 2008-03-03 01:50:55

You can, however, get individual letters but it is very fiddly.

You need a sprite with 26 costumes (letters), key-press detection and unless they are being typed directly onto the screen, you need an ordered way of storing the key-presses to replay back later.

It can be done, but (unlike other programming languages) it isn't a "simple starter project".

For a simple starter project around a name, the students would be better off making sprites of the letters of their name and then animating them/applying special effects. Check out the examples that come with Scratch.

Paddle2See · 2008-03-03 05:43:25

Scratch has no character string data class at this point. Chalkmarrow has implemented short character strings in numbers though, check out this project

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/chalkmarrow/97399

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