Scratch

that's mad!

henley wrote:

Welll, this is the 155th page, and this comment is the 3,853rd.

It's actually the 3,854th.

markyparky56 wrote:

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

henley wrote:

Welll, this is the 155th page, and this comment is the 3,853rd.

It's actually the 3,854th.

It was the 3,853rd reply. 

No it was the 3,854th

3,852nd actually!

Sperry wrote:

It was the 3,852nd reply, 3,853rd post in this thread. Okay. Anyone got anything constructive to say?

ill have to agree with Sperry. 3852nd reply, 3853rd (non-deleted) post. 
my 1001st post btw           

Last edited by LS97 (2010-11-12 11:32:17)

Kimmy123, I have posted a pretty full answer to your question here on the Panther site. It should answer all your questions 

Yes, I'd like to see an update to Panther too 

I was thinking, do you think people would like to use a "text" version of panther? (not to replace our current copy, but the same version with text rather than blocks?

when start clicked:
repeat (2)
wait (1)
say [hello] for (2) seconds
end repeat
end script

for people who want the ability to feel like they're using a more traditional language.
One thing I can think of that you COULD do with this version would be to store "scripts" in files and run them!

We're also looking at possibly a version of Panther that lets you program microchips.

However, I'm not sure what's going on with development. We seem torn between working on 1.1 by adding to 1.0, building 1.1 from the ground up so we're no longer "based on scratch", or switching to java or flash for the next version, something I'm personally against...

yes, that's all already been discussed 

johnnydean1 wrote:

I may suggest this:

Build 1.1 in either:
HTML/JScript/PHP
Squeak (The current platform, but from the ground up)

And as for the text script:
Have a check box in one of the menus to convert the scripts to text. Then have a big text box for the scripting plane and the "text blocks" in the pallette. Then people can see the text equievelnt for the Scratch blocks.

As for microchips:
This could work if under the stage there is a new sprite called micro-chip. It has its own set of blocks, and only 1 script. To go with this the other sprites can use a block simmilar to (sensor |     |) to get variables from the microchip.


Does this cover everything?

Writing a program in HTML is not possible, HTML is from making webpages! If we were/are going to make a text-based version it would need to either in squeak, or something similar to C++ etc. maybe Java, but the ones you want are for webpages.
Why do you want those languages anyway?

yes, but html isn't a programming language, it's a layout language. I think you might get somewhere with php but I doubt it, javascript yes, you could.

sparks wrote:

yes, but html isn't a programming language, it's a layout language. I think you might get somewhere with php but I doubt it, javascript yes, you could.

Your forgetting HTML5

johnnydean1 wrote:

sparks wrote:

yes, but html isn't a programming language, it's a layout language. I think you might get somewhere with php but I doubt it, javascript yes, you could.

Your forgetting HTML5

  I personally don't like the idea of using unconventional languages to do things which could be accomplished using language which were designed for it. Flash or Java would be OK, like how they made the viewer with Java, and Flash to make the new test version.