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Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that
allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated
by the Scratch Foundation, a non -profit organization.
Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem-solving skills; creative teaching and learning; self-expression
and collaboration; and equity in computing.
Scratch is always free and is available in more than 70 languages.

Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating
Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centres.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

The Scratch programming language was and still is developed in the MIT Media Lab by the Lifelong Kindergarten
Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, It has over 84 million registered users and 95 million plus shared
projects.

The current version 3.0 can be downloaded at https://scratch.mit.edu/download or accessed via the on-line editor. The
previous version 2.0 is also available at https://scratch.mit.edu/download/scratch2

The underlying language that makes up scratch is JavaScript and Scratch is available over the whole range of plat-
forms - Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux (via renderer), HTML5, iOS, iPad OS, and Android.

Scratch is the best introduction to coding for beginners and young kids. In simple terms, it is a block-based program-
ming language which helps to simplify coding for beginners. ... Another aspect that makes Scratch good for beginners
is you don't always need a manual to get started.

Here is an interesting YouTube video to get you started and explains it much better than I can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6J2jXjU34

hooked? Making your first program in version 3.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8opsBP_98&list=TLPQMTkwMjIwMjId9ECULF_78g&index=3

Barry explained that he got into the language to try and get his grandchildren interested and to have some fun with
them using some simple animate programs that he created in the package. Being a program developer and in particu-
larly in the robustness of programs, Barry tried to make it crash, But, to his pleasant surprise, was unable to do so.