Scratch Reviews

1. Pratham shah

   | nothing at none | about 2 years ago
   TOO GOOD

   It is just awesome. you can make so many things WITHOUT A TEAM! If you are starting then this is an awesome place to start at.

   🏁 Competitors: Python, Java, Code.org

   👍 Pros:    Good UI|Remix|Works perfectly|100% free|Many, many languages

GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) Reviews

Scratch mentions (558)

• Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?

  LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1 That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from. https://scratch.mit.edu. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze

  And https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now. I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  +1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua. Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music. https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  I am also going to highly recommend Scratch[1]. That is what got me into a programming around that age. You can even help him make a website to host his games on. [1]: https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  This ! Learning to code will come after, spending time with your son writing down ideas might be more fun at first and it's a good time to teach him that games are thoughts first and then coded after. I would have recommended Scratch [1] for a first introduction instead of hoping into code right away, but since he is 9yo he will most likely want to hop on big game engine like he sees his favorite youtubers doing.... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) mentions (10)

• Tracking Caches in Excel

  You could load the caches into GSAK and export them to a .csv file which Excel can work with. Source: 6 months ago

• Can I view a list of Adventure Labs by searching for a Creator? There are a few I liked and would like to see if that Creator has other Labs. Searching for owned Labs on profile just sends me to AL main page which seems pretty useless.

  The second step is https://gsak.net/index.php to download and use GSAK to sort the gpx file by owner name. It's a free to download, but there are A LOT of options to choose from. Fear not!, because the default settings are pretty much all you'll need. There are probably quite a few utilities out there that will work just as well as GSAK and be a lot easier to use so let's see if anyone can suggest one of those. Source: 12 months ago

• Best free Geocaching app for iOS without subscription

  If you do find yourself planning ahead, rather than copy coords down, you can use GSAK (on a computer) to collect the info on the caches you want to look for, then export that as a .gpx file, and save it to your phone and open it with whatever geocaching app you choose to use. Source: about 1 year ago

• looking for an app that marks all the paths I have been to and go to on maps.

  Look for apps that target geocachers. For example - GSAK (https://gsak.net/index.php). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Mass logging

  It's an application which has a lot of uses. https://gsak.net/index.php. Source: almost 2 years ago