Using Scratch

As you probably already know from my last post I am using a website called "Scratch" to help me learn a bit more about coding, and now I am writing down my experience with it as I go.
The first thing I see when I open the website is three options to choice from: Try it out, see examples, and join Scratch. For now I pick the 'try it out' option.

On the new screen I am meet with what appears to be an animation platform, with the cat character in the "frame" and a command sheet to the right of it. There is an green flag and a red stop sign at the top of the frame on the right; so I try to click the green flag, amusing that my character would start a walk cycle or something seeing as there are pre-made setting on the side, and am disappointed when nothing happens. After clicking a bit more I decide that I should actually read the instructions on the far right.

I click start moving on the instruction menu and I tells me that in order to make the cat do the commands I have to drag them out of the command box and into the grey area on the right and then click on them. The instructions then go on to tell me how I can stack more then one command on top of each other to make the cat "dance". Thinking that I have a pretty good understanding of how this works I make my own little animation setting. 

I push space and... nothing happens, the cat didn't move at all. I push space again and see that the bundle of commands I made "glow" when I push it, and that the green flag that I mentioned earlier glows as well so it seems like it should be working... but still nothing is happening. Feeling fed up I decide to re-create the animation sequence from the instructions.

I click the green arrow and it works! Hallelujah! I still don't know why this one works and the other one didn't, but at this point I could care less, I'm just happy something worked. Now as far as the program itself goes this isn't exactly something I would recommend, as far as helping me learn how to code I don't really feel it did that. I may be a bit biased being as I have used an animation software before and this is something clearly meant for kids, not someone considering animation as a career. Over all I wasn't that thrilled with this program, but that's fine by me, I'm sure there is better things out there if I look for them.