{"id":540,"date":"2007-05-29T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-05-29T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T20:25:45","slug":"software-tools-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/05\/software-tools-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">J<\/span>ust got started with this about an hour ago.&nbsp; Drop-by friends that stay for a meal always take precedence over even the most anticipated computer playing, and I did go out and do more gardening this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The format is very user-friendly and inviting.&nbsp; As I suspected, the colors and even choice of font makes it appear more like a game than a serious animation program.<\/p>\n<p>Though I downloaded Alice as well, I rather snobbishly&nbsp; felt that a program put out by MIT might be more sophisticated in the technical end, though it surprises me that Scratch is only a 35 mb download versus Alice&#8217;s 115 mb.&nbsp; It does appear that the average 8 year-old will have no problem with this program, especially if he follows the easy starter instructions.&nbsp; I realize now that it&#8217;s not always the program&#8217;s complexity that inhibits me; it&#8217;s the <del>failure<\/del> refusal to read instructions.&nbsp; It&#8217;s likely that a kid who knows enough to listen and learn will forever have that advantage over me.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;ve broken down and printed out the &quot;getting started&quot; tutorial and after playing and ending up with a motionless animation, will go through the easy example next. Nothing I can show you yet, but I do have a gradient-blue kitty walking and saying &quot;hello!&quot;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">J<\/span>ust got started with this about an hour ago.&nbsp; Drop-by friends that stay for a meal always take precedence over even the most anticipated computer playing, and I did go out and do more gardening this weekend. The format is very user-friendly and inviting.&nbsp; As I suspected, the colors and even choice of font makes [&hellip;]<\/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-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}