This video is mostly for those who want to get a first impression of Greenfoot. We write a simple game in seven minutes (realtime; no cuts!), using Stride. For those who already know Greenfoot with Java: You will see that writing in Stride is not very different to writing in Java. For those new to Greenfoot: This is a quick introduction to Greenfoot and Stride at the same time.
As always, Greenfoot is available for free download.
This is the first in a series of videos introducing Stride. Don’t be put off by the intro at the beginning – you will see code soon enough.
I welcome questions and comments, especially suggestions what you would like me to address in further posts or videos.
At the Greenfoot headquarters, we – that is: Neil Brown, Amjad Altadmri and myself – have recently worked on creating a new language within the Greenfoot environment: Stride.
The interesting thing about Stride is not so much the language design itself, but its interaction design: editing programs involves different interactions than existing editors.
The goal is that Stride sits halfway between block-based systems (such as Scratch, AppInventor, PencilCode, Alice, etc.) and text-based editors (such as Java or Python), maintaining advantages of both.
I will start a series of posts (text and/or video) here over the next few weeks trying to tell you what Stride is and why you should care. In the meantime, you can get Greenfoot, install it, and have Stride ready to go when the introduction here starts. Stride is built into Greenfoot from version 3 onwards.
Check back soon for the first overview video.