The Seasoned Scratcher: What to learn after Scratch (a guide)

Hardmath123

I've seen a lot of “what should I learn next?” posts around here recently. So, with a lot of help from the amazing technoboy10, I wrote a guide on what you should consider learning after Scratch. It lists languages, tools, big ideas, and reading material, as well as sources from which you can learn.

The Seasoned Scratcher

Questions, comments, feedback are welcome (on the blog comments or here on the forums).

Scratch on!

Rumanti

This is a very great and helpful posts! I always love all your blog posts. <3

liam48D

It's so incredible :3

You should make a couple fixes on the Snap! part at the beginning. Snap! was made by Jens.

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Just got to the SVG. It's so awesome.. maybe I'll make a Scratch program to ask you these questions if I have spare time!

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And just finished reading. Amazing post.

Hardmath123

liam48D wrote:
Just got to the SVG. It's so awesome.. maybe I'll make a Scratch program to ask you these questions if I have spare time!

If you do, I'd be happy to put a link into the post. Let me know.

__init__

lol I like the flowchart

thejerwin

Thanks. I'm gonna learn Python, as I already have a bit of experience with it.

This is @mapnap from his new account.

CatsUnited

Great flowchart! I'm mainly learning Javascript and Python. I'll also be learning Java and C in the future.

scratchisthebest

I know at this rate I'm going to turn into a Processing shill because of how much I like it. But yeah. Processing might be worth mentioning? Java based, kinda an intro step up to java. takes care of all the tedious “setting up the window” and “configuring opengl context” stuff for you, so you can just cut straight to the fun creative coding bits.

WooHooBoy

scratchisthebest wrote:
I know at this rate I'm going to turn into a Processing shill because of how much I like it. But yeah. Processing might be worth mentioning? Java based, kinda an intro step up to java. takes care of all the tedious “setting up the window” and “configuring opengl context” stuff for you, so you can just cut straight to the fun creative coding bits.

+1

IronBit_Studios

CatsUnited wrote:
Great flowchart! I'm mainly learning Javascript and Python. I'll also be learning Java and C++/# in the future.

Pretty much this.
Don't use C.
C++ and C# are better, IMO.
according to the chart the best languages are JS and Python

WooHooBoy

Is there a purpose for Telehack?

Hardmath123

WooHooBoy wrote:
Is there a purpose for Telehack?

Telehack is part RPG, part historical archive of the wonderful history of the Internet in the days of yore.

WooHooBoy

Hardmath123 wrote:
WooHooBoy wrote:
Is there a purpose for Telehack?
Telehack is part RPG, part historical archive of the wonderful history of the Internet in the days of yore.

K, I should end up playing it this week.

Firedrake969

IronBit_Studios wrote:
CatsUnited wrote:
Great flowchart! I'm mainly learning Javascript and Python. I'll also be learning Java and C++/# in the future.
Pretty much this.
Don't use C.
C++ and C# are better, IMO.
according to the chart the best languages are JS and Python

which is true

PullJosh

I've never really understood the practical applications of python… It seems that distributing python code to the “real world” is extremely difficult. Is there any easy solution to this that I've never found?

Can someone please justify the use of python for me?
without starting a flame war plz

Firedrake969

ElementalCode's backend.

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/20493/Why-PHP-Is-Fun-and-Easy-But-Python-Is-Marriage-Material.aspx
http://techblog.stickyworld.com/abandoning-php-for-python.html

Last edited by Firedrake969 (Sept. 6, 2015 01:22:24)

CatsUnited

IronBit_Studios wrote:
CatsUnited wrote:
Great flowchart! I'm mainly learning Javascript and Python. I'll also be learning Java and C++/# in the future.
Pretty much this.
Don't use C.
C++ and C# are better, IMO.
according to the chart the best languages are JS and Python

Thanks, forgot that. Also, JS and Python are the best.

PullJosh

Firedrake969 wrote:
ElementalCode's backend.

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/20493/Why-PHP-Is-Fun-and-Easy-But-Python-Is-Marriage-Material.aspx
http://techblog.stickyworld.com/abandoning-php-for-python.html

Okay, that makes sense. If it's on a server, it only has to work on one computer… no distributing needed. Any other major use cases?

Firedrake969

Math/stats

PullJosh

Firedrake969 wrote:
Math/stats

Would it be fair to say that python isn't great if you want to distribute code, but can be very effective for locally-run projects?

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