<s>
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
application	O
that	O
teaches	O
individuals	O
how	O
to	O
create	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
combines	O
an	O
IDE	B-Application
with	O
an	O
extensive	O
Lessons	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
desktop	O
application	O
also	O
has	O
integration	O
with	O
the	O
website	O
,	O
where	O
"	O
Hackers	O
"	O
can	O
share	O
what	O
they	O
've	O
learned	O
,	O
ask	O
questions	O
,	O
and	O
submit	O
feedback	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
was	O
originally	O
created	O
by	O
_why	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
solve	O
"	O
The	O
Little	O
Coder	O
's	O
Predicament	O
"	O
:	O
that	O
learning	O
modern	O
software	O
development	O
is	O
complicated	O
,	O
and	O
difficult	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
earliest	O
iterations	O
of	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
were	O
based	O
on	O
an	O
embedded	O
Gecko	O
browser	O
,	O
but	O
this	O
eventually	O
transformed	O
into	O
the	O
Shoes	B-Language
GUI	I-Language
toolkit	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Why	O
intended	O
to	O
release	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
1.0	O
at	O
the	O
Art	O
and	O
Code	O
Symposium	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
they	O
were	O
stored	O
in	O
git	B-Application
,	O
the	O
Ruby	B-Language
community	O
was	O
able	O
to	O
revive	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
was	O
chosen	O
as	O
a	O
project	O
for	O
the	O
Ruby	B-Language
Summer	O
of	O
Code	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
two	O
largest	O
similar	O
projects	O
are	O
Scratch	B-Language
and	O
Alice	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
major	O
differences	O
:	O
Both	O
of	O
these	O
projects	O
use	O
a	O
graphical	O
programming	O
language	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
"	O
blocks	O
,	O
"	O
but	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
teaches	O
Ruby	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
Scratch	B-Language
and	O
Alice	B-Application
are	O
university	O
projects	O
out	O
of	O
MIT	O
and	O
CMU	O
,	O
respectively	O
,	O
and	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
has	O
no	O
university	O
affiliation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
difference	O
of	O
'	O
blocks	O
vs.	O
Ruby	B-Language
 '	O
stems	O
from	O
a	O
shared	O
belief	O
:	O
most	O
programming	O
languages	O
require	O
a	O
lot	O
of	O
effort	O
and	O
knowledge	O
before	O
one	O
can	O
build	O
more	O
than	O
the	O
simplest	O
of	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
solution	O
that	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
pursues	O
is	O
by	O
teaching	O
with	O
a	O
more	O
traditional	O
programming	O
language	O
,	O
but	O
adding	O
libraries	O
that	O
make	O
it	O
easy	O
to	O
do	O
complicated	O
tasks	O
in	O
one	O
line	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
in	O
a	O
more	O
traditional	O
software	O
library	O
,	O
making	O
a	O
background	O
with	O
a	O
gradient	O
would	O
take	O
five	O
or	O
six	O
lines	O
of	O
code	O
using	O
a	O
toolkit	O
like	O
Qt	B-Language
,	O
but	O
is	O
one	O
line	O
in	O
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
university	O
affiliation	O
that	O
Scratch	B-Language
and	O
Alice	B-Application
enjoy	O
gives	O
them	O
more	O
resources	O
to	O
bring	O
to	O
bear	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
is	O
a	O
more	O
nimble	O
project	O
,	O
since	O
the	O
team	O
is	O
much	O
smaller	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
's	O
also	O
truly	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
project	O
,	O
whereas	O
the	O
Alice	B-Application
project	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
only	O
releases	O
dumps	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
source	O
every	O
so	O
often	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hackety	B-Application
Hack	I-Application
's	O
development	O
is	O
entirely	O
open	O
.	O
</s>
