Kurt Talk

Links from my talk on Kurt at the Scratch Conference, Barcelona 2013.

Slides from the talk are uploaded on Scratch.

Livestream on Ustream.

Kurt

• Code on Github
• Download from PyPI (currently an old version)
• Documentation

Inspiration

Forum threads requesting:

• MIDI to Scratch converter
• Automated assessment
• Text-based Scratch

Writing

• LEGO Portal Stop Motion (Scratch project)
• 101 Fonts (Scratch project)
• MIDI Import (Scratch project)

Text Parser

Kurt has an experimental text parser for converting text to Scratch blocks. See the docs for accessing it from Python code.

The original parser was based on the scratchblocks syntax: see Block Plugin on the Scratch Wiki. The new parser doesn't require so many brackets. The Roads project that inspired the parser.

M30W

• Forum thread
• Download from Sourceforge

Reading

Scratch NXC

• Forum Post
• Download

Hairball

• Code on Github
• Paper and Slides

Implementation

I'm hoping to merge Snapin8r soon:

• Snapin8r

Future Plans

• Kurt Webapp

Thanks

• CAS