- "AT" redirects here. For information on art trades, see Art Projects#Art Trades and Requests.
| Advanced Topics | |
| Forum ID: | 31 |
| Amount of activity: | Low number of topics and a moderate number of replies. |
| Opened: | 2013 |
| Types of users who can post: | All users can create and reply to topics. |
| Brief description: | "Talk about technical aspects, advanced features, or Scratch Modifications (Mods) here." |
| URL: | scratch:discuss/31 |
The Advanced Topics forum is a forum in the Scratch Forums where Scratchers can discuss advanced subjects such as Scratch Modifications and third-party websites that utilize the Scratch API, and more technical topics about the Scratch Program.
Contents
The forum is simply for advanced topics, including:
Modifying (Modding) Scratch
One aspect of Scratch is creating Scratch Modifications where the Scratch source code is edited and put up for others to use. Scratch Modifications typically contain new blocks, extra and enhanced features, enabled Mesh, and more.
Topics about Scratch Modifications should go in the Advanced Topics forum. Typically topics in this forum relating to Scratch Modifications are about Modifications that a user made.
In the Scratch 2.0 era of this forum, some Scratchers wanted a forum to be made specifically for these topics.[1] This isn't as large of an issue anymore, since Scratch Modification topics aren't as prevalent.[citation needed]
Guides
Although this forum is restricted to advanced topics, guides can still be made. As some advanced things may be difficult, some Scratchers write guides to help other Scratchers learn how to do them. These guides tend to teach parts of modifying Scratch or technical information.
Other Projects and Discussions
There are also other projects dedicated to or inspired by Scratch, such as Ocular, Scratchattach, and Hidden Scratch Pages.
Although the Advanced Topics was originally meant for discussing advanced or technical Scratch features, the forum has morphed into a place where Scratchers talk about technical things in general, such as (GNU/)Linux,[2] home-made programming languages,[3][4] advanced programming topics,[5] and creating things in other programming languages.[6][7]
Activity
Even though the Advanced Topics forum only contains advanced topics, the forum is somewhat active, as many Scratchers are interested in modifying Scratch or other technical features, and therefore are active in this forum.
Many users collaborate in Advanced Topics, and use the Scratch Forums as a place to meet people to collaborate to edit Scratch, or create things in other programming languages that may or may not have anything to do with Scratch.
The Advanced Topics forum has fostered a subculture among the frequent posters. Some users who are most active in this forum refer to themselves as "ATers", and consider the forum as a mini-community.[8] This forum is also a place for advanced coding challenges such as "Code Golf",[9] advanced mathematical challenges,[10][11] as well as discussions on what to learn after Scratch.[12][13]
This forum is also infamous for having topics go extremely off-topic to the point that within 2 or 3 pages the discussion has changed to something completely different than the original topic,[citation needed] and was even temporarily renamed to the "Advanced Off-topics" on April Fools' Day 2016.[14]
