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Your Aim
to learn about:
Starting Scratch Choosing a Sprite
Deleting a Sprite Choosing a Backdrop
Understanding Blocks Creating a Script
Pen Block Use of Loop Blocks
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 (cat) icon if there is a shortcut in the Launcher.
or
Click on the Show Applications → Type Scratch in the search box → Scratch.
Clickipedia
Commands written in a programming language are called a program.
Components of Scratch Window
You already know about the components of the Scratch window. Let’s recall them.
Sprite: It is an object that we see on the Scratch stage. The “cat” is the default
sprite.
Stage: It is the main working area to draw or perform action. It shows the
output of the program.
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