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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade: Scratch for SL]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag">Video</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life/" rel="tag">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mac/" rel="tag">Mac</a></p><div align="center"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/tan-scratch4sl2.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>MIT Media Lab's Eric Rosenbaum has produced a wonderful little tool called Scratch for <a href="http://secondlife.com/"><em>Second Life</em></a> (S4SL). Available for Mac or Windows (but not Linux at present, alas) S4SL allows you to create scripts by assembling simple colorful shapes (a bit like plastic bricks).</p>
<p>S4SL is based on MIT's <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/"><em>Scratch</em></a>, and allows you to put together some useful functionality very simply. S4SL isn't going to make you a star creator of scripts overnight, though -- anyone who knows <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life">Second Life's</a></em> LSL scripting language and has a modicum of programming skill can do much more, but that's not the point here.<br /></p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Tools of the trade: Scratch for SL</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/">Tools of the trade: Scratch for SL</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1254603/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>eric-rosenbaum</category><category>logo</category><category>lsl</category><category>mac</category><category>mit</category><category>mit-media-lab</category><category>opinion</category><category>s4sl</category><category>scratch</category><category>scripting</category><category>second-life</category><category>video</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tateru Nino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
