Scratch – the blog session 1 – 13^th July 2010

So, to start with Scratch, you really need to know what it is you want to do. However, you also need to know what can be done...and later...how.

This is the classic chicken and egg situation, which can easily develop into the less classic "Why did the chicken cross the road?" conundrum. At this point you really need to be thinking actually, "How did the chicken cross the road?" if you are to get anywhere with programming; because, obviously, if the chicken was catapulted across the road, then the why of it isn't of interest, while if it ran in front of a fox, we know that something needs to be done about it.

In order to resolve this; the first step is to look at what other people have done. The first stop, therefore is: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/. (You do need to register to use this, but it is free and it is easy so worth doing – its where you will download the software anyway.) Actually, that didn't help me much so I am going back to another google search for scratch to see what I can find to start me off. I settled on a google search for scratch tutorials which led me here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/blahdeblah/104408

Which looked promising, so I downloaded it...lets see how it goes...