But the cool thing is that for any game or story on Scratch, the kid can click into the project to see how it was made, and even access the code and assets. They can copy, fork, alter, build.
The technology is different obviously, but it feels like the early days of the Web, when you could “view source” and “save as” to easily explore and learn how any web page was put together.
> But the cool thing is that for any game or story on Scratch, the kid can click into the project to see how it was made, and even access the code and assets.
Definitely an important feature for learning. Seeing something cool and then immediately being able to find out how it was done is much more motivating than reading and memorizing docs ahead of time.
It's similar in some respects the early days of the web when "View source" was enough to figure out how something worked. It's rather sad that feature has mostly been lost.
But the cool thing is that for any game or story on Scratch, the kid can click into the project to see how it was made, and even access the code and assets. They can copy, fork, alter, build.
The technology is different obviously, but it feels like the early days of the Web, when you could “view source” and “save as” to easily explore and learn how any web page was put together.