Scratch

14God wrote:

1rst: Improved speed
2nd: The ability to create functions(build a block)
3rd: The ability to spawn pre defined sprites
4rth: The ability to have WAN(internet) based variables and arrays(lists)
5th: User name block(especially important for online projects as suggested in point 4)

Please consider these points for later versions of scratch. Thank you.
(PS Scratch Rules!!!)

i agree BRING BACK NETSCRATCH IT WAS AWSOME!!! 14God were you around when scratch was starting up or at least back when netscratch was here just search it in the forums and download it look at the sensing blocks, internet connection punchlines of the day definition of the day temperature in city and more shariables my mood this persons mood , set my shariable mood,feeling to_______  fun very fun NETSCRATCH ROCKS I STILL REMEMBER THE OLE' DAYS OF SCRATCH NETSCRATCH, SO EVERYONE THATS WITH ME COME ON NETSCRATCH NETSCRATCH NETSCRATCH

Hey, the 4th idea was my idea!    Nice other ideas though

juststickman wrote:

I like the spawning thing, functions are basically broadcasts IF speed is improved.

Broadcasts are a very awkward way of calling more sections of code.

A nice way of thinking of complex programs is to think of it as a tree. The trunk is the more abstract main loop that calls less abstract more specific scripts (branches) which in turn call more scripts which call more scripts and so on. Soon all the branches have reached their necessary places. For example: If I say to someone, 'go get me an apple', that person (provided that they feel like doing that) will:
-start walking to the kitchen
-enter the kitchen
-walk up to the fridge
-open the fridge
-open a drawer
-grab an apple
-close the drawer
-close the fridge
-walk away from the fridge
-leave the kitchen
-walk back to me
-hand me the apple
But I didn't have to give all these instructions to this person because he already knows what the command meant and he/she broke it into a bunch of simple parts.
I may have even taught him/her the parts of this routine, and I don't have to teach them again.
PS sorry for going on but this kind of stuff gets me excited and have you ever seen BYOB(a scratch mod)? That's what functions should really look like in scratch.

Last edited by 14God (2010-09-30 04:24:48)

14God wrote:

juststickman wrote:

I like the spawning thing, functions are basically broadcasts IF speed is improved.

Broadcasts are a very awkward way of calling more sections of code.

A nice way of thinking of complex programs is to think of it as a tree. The trunk is the more abstract main loop that calls less abstract more specific scripts (branches) which in turn call more scripts which call more scripts and so on. Soon all the branches have reached their necessary places. For example: If I say to someone, 'go get me an apple', that person (provided that they feel like doing that) will:
-start walking to the kitchen
-enter the kitchen
-walk up to the fridge
-open the fridge
-open a drawer
-grab an apple
-close the drawer
-close the fridge
-walk away from the fridge
-leave the kitchen
-walk back to me
-hand me the apple
But I didn't have to give all these instructions to this person because he already knows what the command meant and he/she broke it into a bunch of simple parts.
I may have even taught him/her the parts of this routine, and I don't have to teach them again.
PS sorry for going on but this kind of stuff gets me excited and have you ever seen BYOB(a scratch mod)? That's what functions should really look like in scratch.

Who keeps apples in a refrigerator?