notes-computer-jasper-jasperHtml5Notes1

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probably should have an HTML5 version first, see

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_on_Tablets https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5

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For all media, the original intent was “symmetric authoring and consuming”.

Isn’t it crystal clear that this last and most important service is quite lacking in today’s computing for the general public? Apple with the iPad and iPhone goes even further and does not allow children to download an Etoy made by another child somewhere in the world. This could not be farther from the original intentions of the entire ARPA-IPTO/PARC community in the ’60s and ’70s.

Apple’s reasons for this are mostly bogus, and to the extent that security is an issue, what is insecure are the OSes supplied by the vendors (and the insecurities are the result of their own bad practices — they are not necessary). " -- http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/

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