06-06-2023, 11:35 AM
(06-06-2023, 06:21 AM)RokCoder Wrote: You don't need to download anything at all - just hop over to the Scratch website, set your daughter up with an account and start coding. There's also a wonderful community feel to the site with excellent moderation making it a safe space for children to be.
So you have been at it for many years, which is impressive.
The comments pages of the site, like too many other places, are sprinkled with images that I don't think would come from pre-adolescents and younger. In particular people putting their pets on animated GIF files. I don't know, it makes me chilly. So this "community" has to be approached carefully.
It could be tempting to take shortcuts to obtain artwork, animation, music, sounds, algorithms for the bad guy to move and that sort of thing, because the programmer must be able to take care of all that in a traditional programming system. I'm not a very good artist and I don't have patience for animation. I really wanted to be like the guy who had a tablet using Inkscape in the video demonstration of one of the Fedora Labs, looks as dead easy as on paper. I'd be immersed much more in doing portraits.
I could do music but some people expect chiptunes or something related to pop or rock, or classical music to play along with. I can't do any of that, I create music for myself to waste time on a hobby.
