Scratch
Scratch is a multi-platform, open source, easy, interactive,
collaborative programming environment designed for creating interactive
stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and sharing these on the
web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop
modern learning skills. When developing Scratch projects, students
learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also
gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch is a graphical programming environment implemented in
Squeak that works in a very Lego-like fashion. Testament to the
popularity of Scratch, there are nearly 3 million projects that have
been created with this programming environment.
Features include:
- Limited hardware / operating system access which helps make
Scratch a safe programming language to learn
- Build programs by snapping together colorful blocks of code
- Turing complete
- Visual Graphical User Interface
- Basic programming
constructs are supported and grouped into different block categories:
- Motion
- Looks
- Sound
- Pen
- Control
- Sensing
- Operators
- Variables
- Variables and lists for data storage, and arrays can be
replicated
- Floating point scalars and strings are supported
- Primarily event-driven
- Many simplified casting rules
- Small stage / Full stage / Presentation Mode
- Compress sounds
- Compress images
- Upload programs to the Scratch Web site
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