Scratch is an open source visual programming language created in 2002 by John Maloney and Leo Burd and Yasmin B. Kafai and Natalie Rusk and Brian Silverman and Mitchel Resnick.
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A screenshot of the visual programming language Scratch.
Scratch is a free visual programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab. Scratch was created to help young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively. It is used by students, teachers and parents to easily create interactive stories, animations, games, etc. Read more on Wikipedia...
- Tags: visual programming language
- Early development of Scratch happened in MIT
- Check out the 47 Scratch meetup groups on Meetup.com.
- There are 10,081 members in the Scratch subreddit
- There are 98 Project Euler users using Scratch
- Explore Scratch snippets on Rosetta Code
- Scratch ranks #16 in the TIOBE Index
- Annual Reports for Scratch
- See also: (18 related languages) Squeak, ActionScript, Linux, Logo, Smalltalk, HyperCard, StarLogo, Etoys, Snap!, Android, Python, Java, BASIC, Arduino Programming Language, JavaScript, Blockly, Kodu Game Lab, Microsoft Small Basic
- 3 PLDB concepts link to Scratch: Flowgorithm, MicroBlocks, PickCode