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Thoughts on using the Scratch language as an intro to programming
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[QUOTE="FactChecker, post: 6202103, member: 500115"] I will have to investigate reporters. I was not aware of them. EDIT: I was aware of their built-in ones, but not by name. They are everywhere. But I don't see a report block that I can modify for my own variables in my download Scratch Desktop Setup 3.3.0. It appears that a usable "report" is a feature of Snap!, which is an alternative to Scratch. It seems to have some advantages for teaching programming principles. If that was their intent, I completely disagree with their decision. They definitely need to at least include a comment block for documenting sections of code. Attaching comments only to lines of code is a problem if that line's block moves. I am genuinely surprised that the MIT developers of Scratch have not paid more attention to these fundamental things. That being said, I tend to agree that it does get children interested in programming and does introduce the basic concept of OO relatively painlessly. [/QUOTE]
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