[OT] Missed a chance.

[Richmond]

Thanks Keith,

What impresses me about both Hackety-Hack and Scratch is that they are 
both tri-platform: working on Linux, Mac and Windows;
meaning that I can use them to teach on the Ubuntu boxes in my school, 
and the kids can carry on with either the Windows or the Linux
versions at home.

> My 10-year old son and all his mates are using Kodu Game lab at school http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu. I can't get him interested in doing the LiveCode summer academy for a game. :-(
> Best,
> Keith..
>
> On 18 Apr 2012, at 10:25, Richmond wrote:
>
>> On 04/18/2012 02:20 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
>>> Not necessarily; they could still get listed here:
>>>
>>> http://codeclub.org.uk/blog/
>>>
>>> But then they'd need a canned set of lesson plans.
>> Certainly the Hackety-Hack website is rather well set out; and, frankly,
>> I much prefer what I can see there to the Scratch stuff (too Lego-like for
>> comfort).
>>
>> Our friends (muffled cough) (are you reading this Kev?) could do well to
>> meditate on this a bit.
>>
>> The kids who will be messing around with Hackety-Hack today will be doing great things with Ruby very shortly.
>>
>> I cannot see how RunRev would lose if they released, say, Dreamcard 2.6 as a FREE thing,
>>
>> or, even, RR 2 (which had standalone building capabilities.
>>
>> I know they want to earn money (and who doesn't????), that is quite understandable; but I am sure releasing something
>> of the order of the above with a dozen reasonably well thought-out lessons would bounce back in a financially favourable
>> way in due course.
>>
>>> Judy
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why do I feel that RunRev's "odd" behaviour with RevMedia has meant
>>>> that they may have missed an important chance?
>>>