[mountaineer]

2.0 may have been a long time in the making, but I just bought the Scratch Adventure book for my kids last week, which uses 1.4, unaware of the pending update. When I went to the site to download Scratch, it was down while preparing for the 2.0 release. I thought it was a pretty ironic introduction to programming, always new shiny objects.

[tylero]

Indeed! Don't let that stop them from having fun, though.

For the book, you can still download 1.4:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4_download

And all the games should still work in the new 2.0 interface too; it's an overhaul of the development environment, with backwards compatibility. (I'm updating the book now for 2.0, I edited it.)

[jaredgeorge]

I'm really glad to hear that! My 9 yr old daughter and I just finished going through this book on 1.4 and had a lot of fun. Do you happen to know if any of the projects will be different? I'd certainly buy a new copy again for additional projects.

[tylero]

We'll have some entirely new Scratch books with "harder" projects in the Fall, I hope. Physics simulations, geometry, math and science-oriented projects, not just games.

Some great new authors working on those, and not just Scratch too, but some "real languages".

But sadly, the 2nd edition of Super Scratch will probably just be an update to stay relevant, not an overhaul.

I hope that Edmond, the author of that first edition, will write a second book, but that depends on his time. You can check out some of his other Scratch projects here: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/LEAD/

[jaredgeorge]

That's great news! I appreciate it and I'll keep an eye out for those books.

[mountaineer]

Great, glad it's backwards compatible.