<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Remember when you started to program? The pleasure of the instant gratification. Do you want to share that high with a new generation? Expose them to scratch.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Scratch is a visual language born at the MIT, from the same roots as the now defunct App Inventor.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>If there is interest I can give a really entry level presentation. Entry level to the world of programming. From sequential instructions to conditionals and loops in an event driven environment, the "programmer" gets instant gratification of watching things happening in the screen.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>If we have this presentation, you may want to bring sons, nephews, or friends 8 and up (maybe some precocious
7 y/o)<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>NOTE: Scratch is cross platform FLOSS, so non-Linux users can go home and play with it too!<br></span></div><div> </div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>Twitter: rarsamx<br>http://rarsa.blogspot.com/<br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts<br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>