Page 61 - Digital_Kids_5

6 Coding With Scratch

Chapter Outline
Starting Scratch 3.0 Components of Scratch
Coordinates and Directions
Blocks

Scratch

A scratch is a programming language used to create interactive stories, animations, games,
music and art. It provides a graphical environment which makes it easy and interesting to
use. Scratch is freely available on the website https://scratch.mit.edu/download. We can

install the Scratch 3.0 editor to work on projects without an internet connection.

Starting Scratch 3.0

To start Scratch, follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Click the Start button and scroll down to the letter S.

Step 2: Select Scratch 3 from the list of available programs. The Scratch 3 Offline Editor
window appears.

Components of Scratch Window

Blocks Palette Green Flag and
Script Area Stop Button

Menu Bar

Sprite

Stage
Script

The Scratch Window has many components as shown in the figure given below

Let us learn about these components:

61 Computer — 5