It's been a while since you've seen me, and Discourse probably thinks so too (They don't ). But I'm finally back. This was one hell of a summer; I left school, my computer broke, and I've been waiting for so long to finally get in contact with this forum and help again. Now that I'm back at school, I can use my school computer to help people out for 9 more months. Don't expect me to be too active, I've just got into high school as a freshman and my computer still isn't fixed. Hopefully nothing goes wrong from here! But I'm just so glad to be part of this community again. Hello everyone old and new.
When you said "I left school" that sounded to me as if it were something more dramatic than just summer vacation, such as graduating or starting homeschooling or something. I guess graduating from middle school counts. (When I was volunteering at the local elementary school, we weren't allowed to call it "graduation" because the school district has a policy that only finishing high school counted as graduation, because they're afraid they'd encourage kids to drop out of school if they called finishing elementary or middle school "graduation." We had to say "promotion." I thought it was a stupid policy; kids are smart enough to understand that life has more than one milestone. And if a kid wants to drop out, they're not going to be dissuaded by changing the name.)
What, you think high school is more important than Snap!? :~)
Second, yay high school! I can very much relate to this post, I too have not been able to do much Snap! over the summer, but I will be able to now that school is back in session. This year I am finally taking an actual CS course (albeit the intro one, my counselor wouldn't let me take the AP version for whatever reason) so hopefully that means more time for Snap! too ;~)
ranty piece about ecs
I'm a little mad that I am being forced to take ECS? That's Exploring Computer Science. I would rather take AP CSP. All of my friends who'vtaken ECS say the class is incredibly boring, and they have done like no coding beforehand. All they did in the class was just write tiny little websites that basically do nothing! Hopefully it'll be like a study hall though? I feel like maybe thinking that I already know everything in the course is a little egotistical, but given what I've heard... I don't know :~/
ECS has an extreme case of the same disease as CSP, namely, trying to make CS appealing to more non-nerdy kids by vastly expanding the definition of what counts as computer science. The latest revision of CSP is more strictly CS stuff, not really because they've changed their minds but because they don't know how to test and grade the other stuff at scale.
). But I'm finally back. This was one hell of a summer; I left school, my computer broke, and I've been waiting for so long to finally get in contact with this forum and help again. Now that I'm back at school, I can use my school computer to help people out for 9 more months. Don't expect me to be too active, I've just got into high school as a freshman and my computer still isn't fixed. Hopefully nothing goes wrong from here! 
But I'm just so glad to be part of this community again. Hello everyone old and new. 