Phani Kumar’s Blog

Yes i agree it is a funny tittle, couldn’t think of a better one. Scratch is a project developed by Mitchel Resnick and his associates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group. Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music and art.

Scratch is designed to help kids (ages 8 and up) develop coding skills. As they create Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.

Scratch is available as a free 35 MB download, and runs on both Windows and Mac OS X, with a Linux version currently in the works. The interface is divided up into several panels: lists of available programming operators and variables appear on the left-hand side, scripts, images, and sounds are in the middle, and the program itself is shown on the right.

The System requirements are

Display:
1024 x 768 or larger, thousands or millions of colors (16-bit color or greater)

OS:
Windows 98 or later
Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Disk:
at least 120 megabytes of free space to install Scratch