Scratch

I agree with Juststickman: It *shouldn't* be powerful because in order to be powerful it can't be simple. Simple and powerful together are oxymoronic. And it will never be as popular as YouTube because there aren't that many people around the world who like programming, and many of those who do require much more powerful programming languages for their intents and purposes. I like the idea, but the math just doesn't work out.

I mean powerful scripts in a simplified form. Many people would not understand the
when flag clicked block code. But when it is in a simple visual format anyone can understand it.

If scratch is powerful then more people will use it. The reason I would not use a different scripting program is because scratch already has a built in community.
that is safe and all ages friendly. But I've never heard of a safe community for things like adobe flash.

Last edited by qwertypower (2010-05-24 15:31:56)

I think that scratch has the potential of being as or even more popular than youtube. 
And it would be awesome.
(But it wouldn't be easy to take Scratch there... and the Scratch team may not even want that.)

Youtube is just community and video.

Scratch is community and interactive art, games, learning tools...

The scratch team wants scratch to have:
a low floor- easy to get into,
a high ceiling- powerful, room for more advanced projects.
wide walls,  great variety of content. 
http://shiorisaito.com/SAI/?p=1184

So why not video too?  (that wouldn't be easy, but possible.)
Would you want to upload video or animations then grab segments to use in a game?
Or have interactive educational videos?
Scratch could be like youtube and much more.

If it's built with community moderation tools, and a scalable plan, I don't think moderation would be a huge issue.

Again, that may not be what they want, but I think the potential is there.

Last edited by JTxt (2010-05-24 17:05:19)

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

I think one key feature of Scratch 2.0 would be a compiler so you can make actual applications, plus an icon editor and an online loading screen editor, like in real online games, they have little animations during the loading screen.

Sorry this doesn't go with the current discussion, but I think it's a good idea.

Again, scratch is to TEACH BASICS, so exporting to other formats would not be made as a feature (although some people have done something similar).