guides:what-folk-can-do
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What Folk Can Do
Teach kids computing
- Vedran Budimcic has been building a Scratch-like environment in Folk. This month, he added support for multiple characters:
- Vedran: I think I only need to do a few more things before I can let me kids try to break it: 1. Put the cards on something thicker like cardboard. Easier for little hands. Maybe laminate as well. 2. Consider character actions from left to right instead of order of appearance. Right now it only considers the actions on the right of the “play” pages, but doesn't consider their order.
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General capabilities
- The Folk programming language makes it easy to write a program that:
- Writes
Hello boxand outlines itself red with the code:Wish $this is labelled "Hello box" Wish $this is outlined red
- Can point at each other (notice the
RIGHT OF PROGRAMappear when the left program's green pointer hits the right) - Draw all sorts of shapes:
- Get a
camera slice(the area the camera sees above a program):
- You can put these programs together and vary the programs slightly to create booklets:
- Or use paper craft to make any program into a button:
- You can combine multiple programs to make folders that:
- Teach people how to make origami frogs:
- Or that explore stop motion animation:
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