Scratch

[anhinga_drafts]

Is this the programming environment I was dreaming about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language%29

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

Have you tried it?

[anhinga-drafts.livejournal.com]

I know an 8-year old girl, who is quite successful with it...

I'll try it now...

[anhinga-drafts.livejournal.com]

actually, looks good; the idea to actually attach behavior and sound to objects is rather cool; e.g. see these projects:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/tour/visual-effects-remixes
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/turf/726648

(code for any project can be downloaded, inspected, modified, etc; one needs to both download the application and to create an account to do that.)

[cema.livejournal.com]

attach behavior and sound to objects

Well, scratch is an evolution of smalltalk, right?

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Squeak is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak

Although, I think their influence on Scratch is quite noticeable.

[cema.livejournal.com]

I thought Squeak was a sort of a modern version of Smalltalk, like Clojure is a modern version of Lisp. How far is Scratch?

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Squeak is not just a modern version of Smalltalk, the most noticeable thing about Squeak is a very radical new approach to IDE.

I don't know how far is Scratch, I need to try Squeak to answer that.