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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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