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                    The official website of Scratch is www.scratch.mit.edu.



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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

                  When you open Scratch, the default Sprite1 is the cat. The location of the sprite cat is at the centre
                  of the stage. We can choose the sprite according to our choice. Scratch provides four options:

                                                                            Upload Sprite


                                                       Surprise
                                                                            Paint

                                                 Choose a Sprite






                  Let us learn to add the sprite from the Scratch Library and paint a new sprite.





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