Using Text In Scratch 1.4

Posted by Brian on January 19, 2010 under games design | 15 Comments to Read

Very Quick Post!

Just discovered that Scratch has the ability to handle text!  I mat be a little behind the times on this one, but what a great potential this has to engage and motivate pupils studying Standard Grade and / or Int 2 Computing. Using a combination of the ask and answer blocks in sensing and appropriate variables, I’m positive pupils would be able to carry out the majority of coursework tasks in this freindly environment.

I have always enjoyed using Scratch in the classroom when we begin to teach programming, but the pupils were often put off when we moved from Scratch to the Xcode environment – and who can blame them?

I just recorded a very quick, not quite up to Avatar standards,   screen cast to show how Scratch can take in keyboard input and process it in a very Standard Grade Computing way.