Now is Time for Spreading Scratch

Scratch is an amazing universal software. It is not just a free educational program from MIT Media Laboratory, but also a program that will change the face of the digital world in the future. When Mitchel Resnick think this program for the first time, he only moved by two major motivations: the children must be able to create their own games and that kind of program should also favored by adults. Now all the ideas that proved true as he successfully combine the two things that contradict each other that is non scripting way to reveal the ideas in digital media and the opportunity to build structures of complex logic.

Unfortunately, adults who belittle to the Scratch, now seemed more eager to play with that program. In such a busy exploration of the simple features in the Scratch that can generate unlimited logic structures, they forget to teach children to understand that program step by step. The children will lose their exhilaration to create new games, when they read too technical and over generalized explanations from many articles.

This blog is present to fill the void and provide a simple tutorial on not only the techniques of Scratch programming, but also the whole environment of Scratch. The children will be led to understand how the logics behind simple stacks in the Sprites, which cause certain effects to games. They will also get tips that have been frequently discussed in the Scratch Forum, but in a more simple and more detailed. Hopefully this way, learning curve time will be shorter, and the children will concentrate more on how to bring their own imaginations into reality.