scratch-www VS ScreenToGif

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).

I'm looking for the best systems to help a 4/5 year old get the basics of programming. My daughter has shown interest in what I do, and loves puzzles and building things. Looking for something visual and fun that can start her down the path of logic and creating with computers.

I have a passing familiarity with Scratch [1], which I'm now looking into more, but am hoping others can share their knowledge and experience in this area.

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

By following these steps, your diagram will be exported as an SVG, keeping the animation intact. If you find yourself on a platform that doesn't support SVG, you can use external programs like ScreenToGif. This program lets you record your screen and export the recording as a GIF. Handy for platforms that prefer GIFs over SVGs.

ScreenToGif has a very nice editor that can make cinemagraphs, remove duplicate frames, etc.

ffmpeg can make gifs, but I don't know how you would do stuff like static regions. It could probably be done with some masking and filtering, but I think you would need to make the mask separately so why not use a GUI gif editor instead?

https://www.screentogif.com/

If you need to show the screen, you should take a screen shot of the entire window, via Window->SaveScreenshot, rather than using a cell phone or something. Take the entire screen instead of just the one part you think is broken. The reason it's broken is not the part, but something else, or you would have already figured out why it's broken. (Sadly, blender no longer has built in screen-animation recording for some reason, but I'm told https://www.screentogif.com/ is a good tool to have handy.)

Also depending on what you're doing Screen to GIF is fantastic.

Screen to gif is a nice programm for that. Have a look at it: https://www.screentogif.com/

Happily. Is free https://www.screentogif.com/ I record the screen, halve the gif size, add the steps in writing at the bottom of the gif, then paste it into a google doc.

I just used the first result which comes up when you search for a GIF recorder in google.

ScreenToGIF is my go-to. Easy to capture, solid set of editing tools, and a top-notch compression algorithm for saving at a high-quality.

If you need to show the screen, you should take a screen shot of the entire window, via Window->SaveScreenshot, rather than using a cell phone or something. Take the entire screen instead of just the one part you think is broken. The reason it's broken is not the part, but something else, or you would have already figured out why it's broken. (Sadly, this no longer works for recording an animation for some reason, but I'm told https://www.screentogif.com/ is a good tool to have handy.)

Use this : https://www.screentogif.com/ It's free and works great