On 10/10/15, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> > On 10-10-2015, at 2:10 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hackaday post:
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>> http://hackaday.com/2015/10/08/latest-raspberry-pi-images-have-improved-scratch/
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>> > Hacker News post:
>> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363088
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>> On the one hand publicity is good, on the other... just read the
>> comments.
>> Sigh. So many idiots.
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> I'll cut them some slack :-)
> There is only so much attention span around. Once it runs out, the result
> is quite random.
> And the rabbit hole runs very deep on projects like Scratch, with several
> implementations etc.

One of the more useful comments is

<citation>
Mark Morgan Lloyd says:	
October 9, 2015 at 5:26 am

I think that the most important part of this news is that at least
part of the Scratch community thinks it’s worth sticking with
Squeak/Smalltalk, rather than using Javascript as an implementation
language.

....
</citation>


And a link to a book for children using Scratch (in Italian)

http://deagostiniscuola.deascuola.it/primaria?layout=book&ref=41&book=11847

I wonder if there are similar books in English.


> Karl
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>> tim
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>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Strange OpCodes: CPE: Create Parity Error
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