Scratch

[Connors]

http://scratch.mit.edu/
I wanted to bring this up because Scratch is a great way for people who haven't programmed before to learn the basics.
Also, I did some cool stuff with it and it's still fun to mess with sometimes....
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Connors/891421

[GabrielCA]

I also find Scratch interesting : great idea, making programming accessible.

What would be even better is something that doesn't impose some weird system (like Scratch's "costumes" and all that) but I fear that such a simplified programming system would be impossible.

[Gan]

Impossible!? The very word is impossible! It's completely impossible for something to be impossible. Now improbable is a different story...
Anyways, besides my ranting; why not build this so called "Impossible" creation?


-Gan

[Silverwind]

Impossible!? The very word is impossible! It's completely impossible for something to be impossible.

Make a clock strike less than once.

[Gan]

Make a clock strike less than once.

At times things may seem completely illogical though come to think of it, our very existence appears illogical. So if by some stroke of miracle we're here and breathing, most assuredly there must be a way to do anything thinkable and even unthinkable. Hence my saying of improbable instead of impossible.


-Gan
P.S. The clock will do less that one strike when the battery dies at the proper moment.

[GabrielCA]

Make a clock strike less than once.

Suppose I should of phrased it differently

[Silverwind]

If the clock strikes less than once, it hasn't struck at all.

[Connors]

I also find Scratch interesting : great idea, making programming accessible.

What would be even better is something that doesn't impose some weird system (like Scratch's "costumes" and all that) but I fear that such a simplified programming system would be impossible.

That reminds me - Starlogo TNG is very similar in that it uses "blocks". It's also made to help people learn programming.
http://education.mit.edu/drupal/starlogo-tng

However, much like Scratch, programs can only be run within starlogo. I had fun with the original 2D version for a while.

[Connors]

Impossible!? The very word is impossible! It's completely impossible for something to be impossible. Now improbable is a different story...
Anyways, besides my ranting; why not build this so called "Impossible" creation?


-Gan

Ganon that's just like saying that all generalizations are false....

[Gan]

How so?


-Gan

[Connors]

how can the word impossible be impossible be impossible!?
gawd.

[Gan]

Oh, that sentence was a joke. Just having fun with words.
Though seriously. Nothing can be proven impossible, but only possible.


-Gan

[Xiphos]

Things can be proven impossible! It is impossible for sound to travel through space, because space is a vacuum and sound requires a medium to travel. FUCK YEAH!

[Gan]

At times things may seem completely illogical though come to think of it, our very existence appears illogical. So if by some stroke of miracle we're here and breathing, most assuredly there must be a way to do anything thinkable and even unthinkable. Hence my saying of improbable instead of impossible.

If the universe with all it's basic fundamentals came to being out of nothing than why wouldn't it be possible for anything to be possible?
Just because it doesn't go with what we know doesn't deem it as impossible, just highly improbable.


-Gan

[Tireas Dragon]

Anything can happen, all things are possible no matter how improbable or seemingly (possibly actually) defying the laws of physics.