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7                     Introduction to Scratch
















                               Your Aim

                               to learn about:

                                       Starting Scratch                  Choosing a Sprite
                                         Deleting a Sprite                Choosing a Backdrop
                                         Understanding Blocks              Creating a Script
                                          Full Screen Mode                  Saving the Project
                                           Closing the Project


                 A computer cannot understand our language. To make a computer work, it needs
                 commands or instructions in the language it understands. Computer programming
                 language allows us to give instructions to the computer in a language it understands.
                 Scratch is an easy programming language that is used to create games, animated
                 stories and interactive art and share creations with one another over the Internet.
                 Scratch has blocks that are dragged to combine and create a project.

                     STARTING SCRATCH

                 Double-click on the Scratch icon if there is a shortcut in the Launcher.

                 or

                 Click on the Show Apps → Type scratch in the search box → Scratch.
                 Clickipedia




                   Commands written in a programming language are called a program.



                 Components of Scratch Window


                 Let us now learn about the components of Scratch window.
                        Title Bar: It is at the top of the Scratch window. It shows Scratch written on the left.
                      The right side of the title bar has three control buttons—Minimize, Maximize and
                      Close.




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