Scratch 4 Second Life (S4SL)

Eric Rosenbaum, a guy from the MIT has launched a nice little application that helps NonScripters and or Beginners with Basic things like Movement Color changes and you can easily add behaviors and interactivity to objects in SL.

it allows you to 'construct programs' using a graphical interface where you just snap together what should be achived. Very Easy ..

http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/

I don`t know his Inworld Name but if i see him i would transfer some Lindens
as a Donation to him My little Brother on the teen Grid is very happy with it !!


Info on Scratch:
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Intel Foundation, and MIT Media Lab research consortia.

wow - looks pretty cool!
I wonder, what the code looks like it produces...

Lots of bloat because the "just in case" functions remain in the final code. Don't get me wrong, this is an awesome learning tool. It's worth checking out.

For us beginners who would try it to reverse engineer a script, the bloat is indistingushable from the needed. I tried to do a simple "Point at any AV "script and it was a few miles long featuring all kinds of things I never wanted. So how do I know what's bloat or not? Do I just erase a few things and see it it still operates? Especially in this case, it does what I asked, but I don't know how to make it do more. If it can point going left or right, how do I get it to point up or down? If I could find the needed elements, I'm guessing I could deduce how to add the extra movement. Sigh.

ive always felt that lsl should be something like this

"easy scripting system" well i guess it is, if you know how to script in the first place, just as easy as lua or python or anything else the common person would not touch

I played with it, it doesn't really do too much, it asks questions as it goes along and spits out the program at the end. It's not particularly difficult to write something like that, I used to write basic programs that wrote basic programs all the time way back in the day. Everyone seems really impressed by the fact that you're such an awesome coder that you can write a program that writes programs, but realistically, when it gets down to brass tacks, it's pretty straight forward to produce code that produces code despite it seeming like a difficult challenge, it's not really. Not to take away from the work that Eric did, it's neat, and kudos to him for creating it though.


http://www.secondscripter.com

It is good for begginers to actualy make something functional. But it is bad for reverse engineering. I looked at the produced code for bunny jump and the script was split into so many functions that i got lost trying to read it. And plus that comments that take 3/4 of all text. I would never get myself to read all that. But maybe someone desperate of knowlede would . Despite that it is a program well done. The only program out that is easy to use and has quite a few functions.