Tag: Scratch
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Game of Life in Scratch
A few days ago I asked for volunteers to read a book I was writing on programming, using Scratch, MIT’s visual, event-driven, programming environment. I have not yet had any volunteers, though the flurry of online interest did get me to complete the first draft – so alpha testers still needed. In the meantime, I…
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Writing a book…
…maybe, anyway. Programming is being (re-)introduced in English primary schools as part of the reformulated National Curriculum and this is certainly A Good Thing. One worry, though, is whether there are enough teachers with the basic skills in programming needed to teach. I am pretty certain there are not: hence the importance of volunteer schemes…
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The Art of Scratch, Code Club and the ICT curriculum
Regular readers will know I have something of a small obsession with Conway’s Game of Life – the classic “game for no players” based on cellular automata, and so, naturally enough, when I decided that I really had to write my own Scratch program from, err, scratch to sharpen up my skills for teaching children…
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Scratch: why, oh why, oh why?
I decided I wanted to write “Conway’s Game of Life” in Scratch (I am sure somebody else will have done this, but that’s not the point). What a nightmare. Enough to make me rethink my views on Scratch’s usefulness as a teaching tool. More to follow when I have actually finished it – tomorrow evening…
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