{"id":70,"date":"2011-12-19T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-12-19T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:08:58","slug":"scratch-a-taste-of-the-floss-programming-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/scratch-a-taste-of-the-floss-programming-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch: A Taste of the FLOSS Programming World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Scratch-MIT-Logo.png\" alt=\"Scratch-MIT-Logo\" title=\"Scratch-MIT-Logo\" width=\"213\" height=\"181\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had the pleasure of playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch<\/a> while building a new universal image for our labs.  Scratch is a graphical, drag-and-drop programming language aimed at young people and beginning programmers.  The intuitive interface makes programming a snap.  Because of this, we have made sure to install it in all of our computer labs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art &#8212; and share your creations on the web.<\/p>\n<p>As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice.org\/\">ALICE<\/a>, one can be up and programming within a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drag and drop interface<\/li>\n<li>Shape and colored coded elements<\/li>\n<li>Built in, simple graphics editor to create new sprites easily<\/li>\n<li>Online community built upon sharing the program and code with other users around the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like that MIT has developed a social community focusing on various aspects of the greater FLOSS world to encourage Scratch programmers to share, discuss, and build upon the knowledge and efforts of others.  This is definitely a must have for any child&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/2102968?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2102968\">Scratch: overview<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/andresmh\">andresmh<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of playing around with Scratch while building a new universal image for our labs. Scratch is a graphical, drag-and-drop programming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,26,27,25,24,28],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","tag-applications-2","tag-education","tag-mit","tag-programming","tag-scratch","tag-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}