What is Scratch?

What is Scratch?

Scratch is programming language that makes computer programming exciting. With Scratch it is easy to create interactive stories, animations, and games. You can use Scratch to learn computer programming concepts while playing with the fun tool.

Scratch has an extensive collection of graphics, animations, sounds, and music included that you can use to create your projects. You can also use the built in graphic design tool to create unique content for their projects.

Why Learn Scratch?

Computers are powerful tools that can be used for solving problems, completing tasks, watching movies, or playing games. However, the programs that we use on the computers must be written. Scratch will allow you to write your own programs and games that you can use or share with your friends.

While learning Scratch, you can also use skills that you learn in other classes such as math, music, or science. For example, you could write a calculator program, you could create a virtual piano, or you could write a program to simulate a scientific experiment.

How to Create a Scratch Account?

Scratch is a visual programming language that allows students to create their own interactive stories, games and animations.

As students design Scratch projects, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Scratch was created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media lab and is available for free download at http://scratch.mit.edu.

Once Scratch is downloaded to a computer, you do not need Internet access to create a project. Before begin to program with Scratch,

How to create Scratch account:

Create an account for the Scratch website.

Here’s how:

• Open a web browser, such as Google Chrome.

• Enter the website address https://scratch.mit.edu/ in.

• your address bar, usually at the top of the screen

• Click Join Scratch in the top right.

• Make up a username. The site advises you to protect your.

• privacy by not using your real name. You can’t change your username later, so choose wisely.

• Pick a password and enter it twice. The second time is to make sure you’ve typed it correctly.

• Use a mixture of uppercase and lowercase, numbers and symbols to make it more secure.

• Click the Next button.

• Select your country date of birth, gender, and email address.

• This personal information is used to help you recover your password if you forget it, and is used by the Scratch team to understand who uses Scratch.

• Click Next Enter an email address so they can confirm your account before you can share projects or post comments.

• Click Next and you will be logged in.

How to save your project:

A Scratch project includes all the sprites, scripts and backdrops that are used in it. It’s a good idea to save your projects so you can come back to them later to reuse them or modify them.

In Scratch 3 online, your work is automatically saved for you. If your latest changes have not been saved, there will be a link to Save Now in the blue bar at the top of the screen, beside the folder icon that gives you access to your projects. Your project is saved with the name Untitled plus a number. You can choose a more useful name by editing the box in the blue bar, above the Code Area, and to the right of the tabs.There are additional options for saving your work in the File menu. You can find it above the Blocks Palette, as shown above.

• File Menu – Create a new file, open an existing file, save your file, save your file and specify a new filename, import an existing project, export a sprite

The file includes these options:

• New: Creates a new project.

• Save now: Saves project.

• Save as a copy: This makes a copy of your project with a new name. The previously saved version of your project is left untouched. Use this if you want to experiment with your project without losing a working version of it.

• Save to your computer: This enables you to save your project as a file on your computer. If your internet connection fails, use this option straight away to save your work!

• Load from your computer: If you previously downloaded a Scratch project to your PC, or used a downloadable version of Scratch to create it, use this option to upload it to the Scratch website, so you can edit and share it there.