Scratch books, was Re: [squeak-dev] In the hacker news

Hannes wrote:

> And a link to a book for children using Scratch (in Italian)
...
> I wonder if there are similar books in English.

In the last year or two there was a small bookshelf published in
English, and some cover Scratch 1.4 (the Squeak version on the
Raspberry Pi) rather than Scratch 2, the Javascript rewrite.

I like this one:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/carrie-anne-philbins-adventures-in-raspberry-pi/

It came out in 2013 and has already run to a second edition.

It only has one chapter on Scratch.  But there are several other books
I haven't looked at, as this search at a well known bookseller shows:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=scratch+coding

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David Corking

> On 16-10-2015, at 5:24 AM, David Corking <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> [snip]  Scratch 2, the Javascript rewrite.

Ah, actually Flash, not javascript. Which makes it actively awful as a concept. See recent Flash critical errors. I was going to add a date but honestly, they’re so common you might as well use a date interval starting many years ago and having an open end.

And that is why Pi is keeping to the Squeak version.

tim
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