CC-Tweaked VS scratch-www

My main passion right now is working with the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft, which adds a flexible Lua-based fantasy terminal to the game. I'm most known for CraftOS-PC, a cross-platform desktop and mobile C++ app which recreates the ComputerCraft environment outside Minecraft. I'm currently working on writing an operating system for it called Phoenix, which aims to implement a full-fledged POSIX/Linux-like environment all in Lua.

For those that don't know, CC:Tweaked is the sucessor of ComputerCraft, a fabulous mod for Java Minecraft that adds computers that runs a Lua VM and are able to run programs, interact with some blocks and do redstone stuff. Also it add "mobile" computers/robots aka Turtles that have everything computers do plus they are mobile and can break and place blocks in the world. For large scale building and intricate redstone projects this is a must have mod.

Github repository here

https://tweaked.cc/ ## Other nice if you already know some basics of programming

A better and updated version of the wiki is at https://tweaked.cc

if you want some documentation for all the bits and pieces there is https://tweaked.cc/

LDoc isn't really meant for this, but you can generate on each file individually and then hack in links with some post-processing. Alternatively, if you have the time to dig into an even less documented format, illuaminate natively supports multi-file docs. (See here for an example config file.)

Oh dear, I hadn't quite appreciated how confusing this was. There's an open issue to make the fact that the file is read-only a little more obvious - I will bump that up my priority list.

Known issue that a fair amount of people have been reporting (in discord as well).

For all CC specific things, the CC: Tweaked docs found here are very very useful. You can check out the turtle, redstone, and fs APIs here (listed in the sidebar under "Globals") if you want more precise info than what tutorials are able to give you.

LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1

That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from.

https://scratch.mit.edu

and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.

I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.

+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.

Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/

> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]

1: https://scratch.mit.edu/

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)

Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)

Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).