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Scratch was created by Mitchel Resnick and his team at the MIT Media
Lab in 2007.
The Scratch window appears with the following components:
Go Button: It is the green flag and when Stop Button: It is the red button which on
you click on it, it runs a Scratch program. clicking stops the running Scratch program.
Stage Area: It is
Tabs: Scratch has mainly
similar to a stage
three tabs which are
in a play where
Code tab, Costumes tab
everything takes
and Sounds tab.
place.
Block Menu: It displays Backdrop: It is
the categories of blocks a background
based on their functions of the stage.
and use.
Sprites Info
Script: It is actually a
Pane: It shows
program which gives
all the details
the instructions in
of sprites and
the form of blocks.
backdrops
Coding Area: It is the area where you Sprite: It is the actor which acts on the stage. used in a
stack your blocks to create scripts. The default sprite in Scratch is an orange cat. project.
CHOOSING A SPRITE Upload a
sprite
When you open Scratch, the default Sprite1 is the cat. The location Surprise
of the sprite cat is at the centre of the stage. We can choose the
Paint
sprite according to our choice. Scratch provides four options:
Choose
Let us learn to add the sprite from the Scratch Library and paint a Sprite
a new sprite.
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