On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 7:19:16 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
One of the most requested features in Etoys is the ability to "wait" in a script.
I suspect most of the requests came from adults who tried to translate their current code to Etoys :-). Most young learners I know think in terms of "event time" (kairos) rather than "H:M:S time" (chronos). They wait "for an event" rather than "for a duration". Any teacher will attest about fear of timeouts and parents about "are we there yet?" queries while driving ;-).
Existing tiles are sufficient to script statements like "x seconds after event y do z". A Digital Timer widget can be created with start/pause/reset and HMS counters for convenience but that would take the fun out of making Rube Goldberg widgets :-)
HMS readouts in Digital Clock are sufficient to do statements like "at x do y".
Subbu