I quite like the drag and drop pluggable programming blocks in scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu/ ) I'd like to be able to get users to create their own mini scripts using the same kind of technique... just wondering if anyone knows of anything similar I could utilise in .NET? ideally in WPF. ...
I've got a ten year old brother who desperately needs a constructive hobby and I am convinced he has the proper sort of wiring to become an adept coder. However, what he has in raw intelligence he lacks in patience and willingness to try new things. His overpowering interests are Legos and video games so my inclination is to find a way ...
I am considering the possibility of designing an application that would allow people to develop C++ code graphically. I was amazed when i discovered scratch (see site and tutorial videos). I believe much of C++ can be represented graphically, with the exceptions of preprocessor instructions and possibly function pointers. What C++ fea...
I just found out about Alice and Scratch. I will be implementing those pretty soon. But, I wonder, what would be good material for kids from 1st grade thru 4th/5th? ...
In Scratch, there is a condition in the sensing category called touching, that can have edge as a parameter. Given that the condition returns true, how can I tell which edge was touched (i.e. top, bottom, left or right edge of scene)? Alternatively: How to tell the dimensions of a scene? I have worked out that position (x=0, y=0) is in...
how do drag costumes during execution in scratch? ...
My newest project that I'm looking to build with PHP (likely CodeIgniter) would require some sort of system that would allow a user to drag and drop pre-defined functions/methods into mini-classes/objects and then run/test them in the browser. So it'd something similar to Scratch. I've designed a relational database that I think could w...
As a student teacher i am very interested in how effective "mini languages" such as Scratch, Logo, Alice and Lego mindstorms are in teaching the pupil the core concepts of programming such as variables, fuctions and loops. Is one "mini language" better than another for teaching these basic core concepts? ...
Hi, I currently have to develop a system very similar to MIT's Scratch's UI. In case you don't know it, here a screenshot: http://kidconfidence.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/scratch1.png Basically you have bricks in the library on the left you can drop into the window on the right side. The problem I have is that I'm new to Co...
I intend to build a custom version of SCRATCH. I am a web-developer and hence not familiar with technologies that could have used to build scratch. I see quite a lot technologies used in there such as Java Applets, C, SmallTalk and so on. Can someone tell me the basic skill-set that's required to modify SCRATCH fro my purpose? ...