{"id":529,"date":"2007-06-02T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=529"},"modified":"2007-06-02T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T16:26:01","slug":"software-tools-scratch-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/06\/software-tools-scratch-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Scratch<\/em> – Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>lmost had a quickie (10-second) "story" ready to post–or as ready as I’m willing to work on it, after seeing the Alice<\/em> program.  Then I changed one little thing and now the two characters are out of sync in their interaction.  <\/p>\n

The problem I’m having with Scratch<\/em> is that I’m not awed by the graphics–even my own–enough to put the effort into it.  One of the minor inconveniences is that you work on one character at a time so that synchronization of the interaction is not an easy thing.  There may be a way of opening both screens (one shows up as a character is being "coded") so that five seconds or five steps shows you where each character is at any point.  <\/p>\n

Another thing I’ve likely screwed up myself is in making changes to the costume (from short skirt to farmer overalls) in the four costumes of one character, I can’t seem to start the character off in the opening with the proper stance.  Remember, each "costume" is really a change of not clothing usually, but positioning.<\/p>\n

As I’ve selected one of the Scratch<\/em> programs music loops, the action seems to jerk at the point where the music ends and begins anew. <\/p>\n

After going through some of the user examples on the MIT Scratch<\/em> website, I’m not as embarrassed to put mine up–it’s likely not the very worst up there.  As long as I can get it to work properly. <\/p>\n

I’m rather anxious to play with Alice<\/em>.  Though in the back of my mind something’s bothering me already about it:  you’d be using characters and settings and items that are already created and provided by someone else. I’m learning to be a team player but this hits me differently, sort of like a paint-by-numbers sense of doing that taints the creativity aspect for me and dulls my enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Then again, when I see how much time I’ve wasted<\/del> spent in drawing my own clunky figures for Scratch<\/em> when I could have been playing<\/del> learning the program and exploring its possibilities,  I know I must learn to focus on the program instead of my own natural instincts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>lmost had a quickie (10-second) "story" ready to post–or as ready as I’m willing to work on it, after seeing the Alice program.  Then I changed one little thing and now the two characters are out of sync in their interaction.  The problem I’m having with Scratch is that I’m not awed by the graphics–even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}