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What is the closest analogy for kids these days? https://scratch.mit.edu https://scratch.mit.edu ?
by orzig 10mo ago
What is the closest analogy for kids these days? https://scratch.mit.edu https://scratch.mit.edu ?
- saghm 10mo agoRoblox, maybe? They do have scripting, but I have no clue if it's something kids do or not https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/use-case-tutorials/scripting/basic-scripting/intro-to-scripting https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/use-case-tutorials/...
- ikr678 10mo agoDiscord music player bots and automod scripts.
- herpdyderp 10mo agoNeopets is still around! TIL they’re independent again as of 2023.
- cnees 10mo agoNeopets itself. Codepen and Khan Academy also let you share your HTML/CSS creations, and they add support for JS, but they don't have the game/pets elements that make coding petpages fun.
- CobrastanJorji 10mo agoNeopets wasn't really ABOUT programming. It was just a game for kids. It so happened that there were a lot of dull, repetitive tasks, or tasks that were best done at exact times, the sorts of things that programming could really help with. And there were places to stick some custom HTML for your profiles and such. It was a programming-shaped problem, and so a certain kind of child was happy to embrace programming because they had a problem to solve. Scratch is ABOUT programming. It tells you "here is programming, you can make games and stuff," and that's neat, but it's a little different.