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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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