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Scratch, and why block building in javascript isn't coding.

Discussion in 'Programming' started by Valterain, Sep 27, 2014.

  1. Valterain

    Valterain Dex is a chronic masturbator. Watch out. Clockwork Customer

    In case some of you do not know, Scratch is a program created by students at MIT to get student to get in to programming. Scratch works like this. It gives you a few blocks, and some set sprites, and allows you to set a background. To your right, you have a work space, where you can place down blocks, that do different things that react to each other. You have if then blocks, move 10 steps blocks. And you can add your own variables. On the left is what your blocks are doing. Now, I do not actually think is teaching anyone how to properly program, since, you do not get to see what the blocks represent, unless you actually know Javascript well. Also, I prefer typing everything out in LUA and what not compared to clicking and dragging blocks over to a work space, and just going from there. (I will admit, I'm a pretty basic coder, but fuck, I'm only 13, so, I try.)
     
    Valterain, Sep 27, 2014
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  2. Jac

    Jac Guest

    Was forced to play with Scratch at school.
    I made pong.
     
    Jac, Sep 27, 2014
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  3. Valterain

    Valterain Dex is a chronic masturbator. Watch out. Clockwork Customer

    Who doesn't make pong. It is almost a set principle that you have to create pong in scratch.
     
    Valterain, Sep 27, 2014
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  4. ShadowOfDoubt

    ShadowOfDoubt In the grim dark future. There is only SCG.

    I got told to make pong with scratch.

    So I made a quest with Python instead. lol
     
    ShadowOfDoubt, Sep 27, 2014
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  5. Angus

    Angus

    It's Lua, not LUA.
     
    Angus, Sep 28, 2014
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  6. Valterain

    Valterain Dex is a chronic masturbator. Watch out. Clockwork Customer

    Does it matter?
     
    Valterain, Oct 1, 2014
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  7. Dremek

    Dremek

    Scratch is ass.

    i'm getting forced to use it at the end of my high school year as the last unit for my introduction to digital technology class, which is required for me to take actual programming classes

    Start with Visual Basic, it's one of the easiest programming languages out there, and there are a lot of things you can do with it.

    eclipseorigins.com/community/

    That's where I started getting into game development and such. It's an open source game engine in which you can REALLY easily add stuff, as it's scripted in Visual Basic.

    Also the community is REALLY great and there are a lot of projects to get into, resources, tutorials, and it's SUPER ACTIVE.

    Seriously.

    Visual Basic 2D Development is a really easy start.

    Then try using Unity with it's C++, or go into garrysmod, with LUA.
     
    Dremek, Oct 2, 2014
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  8. Atebite

    Atebite

    Unity uses C# and JavaScript, not C++.

    VB is probably a good start, or so I've heard. I never wanted to touch it. Then again, I find it kinda wasted if you're going to use your programming knowledge to use software that does everything for you. Much more fun to do things from scratch (no not the shitty scratch), try L?VE 2D (Uses Lua) or something.
     
    Atebite, Oct 2, 2014
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