Help once I've mastered Scratch...

I mastered Scratch years ago, and now that I've got the RasPi I don't know what to do next. Can someone give me a tutorial for what to do now? Don't make it too complicated, I'm only 12.

And another thing, I already have programs installed, so don't bother telling me how to install them.

Maybe try to make some of the programs you made in scratch in a language like python. They don't have to be exact copies, just similar so you can get used to python's structure. Programming in the working world uses libraries of programming done by other people. Finding a nice library is often the hardest decision.

Read lots of code written by others, imagine how you could use it.

Cheers Jacko

[Gert van Loo]

Somewhere there is the Python 'snake' code Eben uses as introduction to programming.
That might be a very good 'next' step.
I have no idea where it is or how much the code depends on Eben guiding you through it.

[dom]

Somewhere there is the Python 'snake' code Eben uses as introduction to programming.
That might be a very good 'next' step.
I have no idea where it is or how much the code depends on Eben guiding you through it.

It's preinstalled on the Wheezy images. Look in:
/home/pi/python_games/wormy.py

I also agree with doing things you do in scratch in other languages, python or C are good ones to start with. Python being the simplest as you can just type into the console.

Have you played with the examples of programming in the MagPi ( http://themagpi.com/ ) the programming tutorials are really good.

The only thing I would point out is that some languages like C/C++ or Java will take a lot more to get interesting results compared to using scratch. It is a lot more complex to do graphical things in a simple way but that is also part of the learning process.

In python you could have a look at the turtle module which will allow you to do some drawing things easily. Start by looking here http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html

Jon