Scratch

I watched it and left a comment 

The video is quite helpful for people new to programming, but in my opinion it would be even better if you described a little more what the blocks does e.g.

"The we take the 'when space bar pressed' block which takes input from the user, you can change to another button on the keyboard by clicking here...."

Last edited by jacool (2009-10-23 16:08:33)

I think both videos are pretty good. The narration is clear, and I like how the video demonstrated everything step-by-step.

The addition of SFX in the second video I found to be a good and bad thing. In some cases, the SFX sound went well with what was going on in the video, but other times, they kind of threw me off (an example would be the SFX sound at around 0:20 when the user says "Click on the new sprite folder").

I think the video tutorial could be better by adding a small explanation of what some of the blocks do  - perhaps maybe this could be introduced at the end of the video with a 'try it out' segment, where viewers could be introduced to other options associated with the <when[--- ]key pressed[/blocks]> and <change[---]effect by(---)[/blocks] blocks and encouraged to 'try them out'. 

I'm actually quite inspired by what everyone's creating especially the Spaceship fly that was on the front page. So thanks for the tutorial - I just need to come up with a good idea to use.

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Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-10-30 19:53:09)