On 18-07-2013, at 8:33 AM, "JohnReed Maffeo" <aldeveron at graffiti.net> wrote:
> I am willing to help, but I am not a Scratch user and would need some guidance. 
> 
> It looks like there are tutorials and lessons for 1.4 and 2.0. Should I care which ones to use?

1.4 - 2.0 is (spit, hack) Flash based and totally irrelevant to Pi. The only good Flash was Flash Gordon.

The www.raspberrypi.org forum on Scratch has useful stuff buried in there. The scratch.mit.edu forums have a lot of older stuff still valid. 1.4 getting started and reference guides are still at http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/ There are some relevant videos on yootoob. 


> Is there any new behaviour that needs to be tested?

I'm not adding any new facilities right now, just re-writing sections of the code to speed things up and moving the code to post-closures images. 
Compare -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wwuc9bndop3o4i/ast-original-7.MOV
to -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9iajcckauckomq/ast-latest-bb-25.MOV
for an idea of how that is going.

> 
> What is your planning horizon?

Continuous gentle improvement is the plan. I'll publish new images and /or VMs whenever I think there is something worth getting checked out. I already have a couple of Scratch/Pi users in the UK that are using it in their classes, but they're teachers and not at all Smalltalk knowledgeable, so they have an intriguingly different set of views, needs and skills. A few people with Smalltalk knowledge would be a valuable addition to the team.

If you download https://www.dropbox.com/s/m34nzzkfg9u8jtn/Pi-Scratch-013-test.zip and unzip it in a suitable directory, then cd there and run
$ squeak -vm-sound-alsa Scratch-GPL-013.image
things should work. Note that one of the UK teachers had no problems, the other hasn't made it work, so there may be some issues to be worked out.

tim
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