Re:Scratch is a big deal
by enragedcacti on Saturday July 16, 2022 @05:24PM
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Probably because his kid wanted to make a number guessing game? I feel like the last thing you would want from a children's programming language is "why would you want to do that? Go learn Java if that's the type of thing you want to make"
It seems like Scratch is made specifically for game development, since everything revolves around the concept of manipulating sprites. "Guess the number" is a game, but not the kind of game that this tool was made to create.
Using text in games is incredibly common
Hiscore tables in games are full of numbers.
Re:Scratch is a big deal
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:31PM
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Those are easy to make in Scratch via lists.
Re:Scratch is a big deal
by avgcorrection on Saturday July 16, 2022 @05:30PM
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They just said that the kid was making it. Not whose idea it was.
Re:Scratch is a big deal
by twobitshifter on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:15PM
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look at the taco burp game. There’s a scope there, hence ya need numbers.
> This made dealing with Scratch far more complex and time-consuming than the logic of the game my kid was making, which is the exact opposite of what you want in a learning environment. I don't really want to focus on the idiosyncrasies of Scratch when teaching programming.
Printing “Hello World” and displaying a number is easy in languages like Java. Making a top-down shooter is not. So why does one usually do the print stuff rather than the top-down shooter stuff? Ain’t that also because of the idiosyncracies of your run of the mill general purpose programming languages?