Scratch; A Visual Programming Language

Scratch / December 11, 2018

Scratch is a Visual Programming Language primarily targeted at children to help them understand the basic Computer Programming Concepts.

Getting started with Scratch

Signing up

Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/ and create your account by clicking the Join Scratch button. Enter your details and keep clicking next until you finish signing up.

Site

Join Scratch

Sign up

Creating a new project

First login to Scratch with the account you just created.

Login

Click the create button to create a new project.

Create Project

New Project

Writing the first program

A Sprite is a set of objects that perform actions. A Sprite consists of Scripts, Costumes and Sounds.

Scripts can be created by dragging and dropping the items in the Scripts tab.

Scripts

Costumes are the images in the project.

Costumes

Sounds are your sound tracks.

Sounds

You may have to create a simple program first to understand how Scratch works.

Here is the project I created.

This is how my projects looks like on YouTube.

Photo Credits

unsplash-logoFabien Bazanegue