New Ideas and Help with Getting used to Blocks

Help with Snap! Snap! Editor
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Scratch used to be better with downtime before COVID.

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Well, a lot more people came once Covid-19 decided to visit the world, so that in a way busted their servers. Their statistics page is also broken.

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So did you like the tutorial?

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Pretty useful! (Though, I think you can unhide the min, max, ≤, etc from a menu.)

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Yes, I'm still studying it, actually!

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You can’t, they are only accessible via relable

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Lmk when ur done, I’d like to see your block definitons and give you some advice if things can be done diffrently

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Okay!

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Have you finished?

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<(one ?)xor(two ?)::operators>::hat control
result <not <(one) = (two)> > ::control cap // Think about it.
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"Brian" is fine. (As an adult, I'm allowed to have a name. :~) )

I've started working on a further reply, but keep getting interrupted, and this is going to take a little while. Stay tuned. As a sort of table of contents, here's a list of Big Ideas without the explanations:

  • recursion
  • higher order functions
  • everything first class
  • prototype-based object inheritance
  • extending scalar functions to vectors and matrices
  • metaprogramming

I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but that's my plan...

PS Don't post your age. Things like "middle school" are okay.

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Okay! Yeah, I meant "professor" as a sign of respect, but I'll call you Mr. Brian if you really want [ :wink: ]. Also, I didn't know I wasn't allowed to say my age (I must've missed that part) and I'll stay in touch! And adults have names? Wow. . . that's a shocking discovery! [ XD ]

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It's not a rule. Just common sense.

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So, if I post my age, that means I don't have common sense? That is the largest fallacy I've seen on a website before.

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I learned about snap before I knew scratch existed
I read from page 1 to like page 30 of a snap tutorial book and then everything else i learned myself

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No. I mean that there are some bad people who might do bad things.

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Yeah, I think Scratch is good for starters, but Snap! is for the slightly more advanced.

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Oh! Sorry, misunderstanding. . .

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@roboticisaac why did you switch to snap
I saw you say because you wanted to learn how to code better
Is that because you heard about the JavaScript block

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Nooooo..... (I guess you read my 61A first-day handout!)