Etoys, Alice and tile programming

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sat May 10 04:19:43 UTC 2003


On Friday 09 May 2003 08:41 pm, Alan Kay wrote:
> At 8:50 PM -0700 5/9/03, Jeffrey T. Read wrote:
> >Building anything complex (and even at 15, to me all the
> > interesting stuff was complex) would have tired out my mouse hand
> > in a hurry.
>
> Yes, I think this is generally true. The tile stuff is great for
> just starting, and especially for younger kids, but it gets awkward
> when it is scaled up. However, the tile version that the Alice
> folks did is for older kids and does scale better than the etoys (I
> think). Another version of assisted programming -- popups for next
> possible stuff -- could really do a better job these days.

What gets awkward first? Is it the vocabulary growing, or is it the 
connection between the scripts, or what? 

Do individual scripts get unwieldy or is it the large number of them 
that does?

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