Scratch Development Environment

Scratch was created at MIT by a very talented team of developers. Scratch is a 2D programming environment we use to introduce basic programming concepts such as objects, variables, repetition, conditional execution, loops, and events. Scratch 1 was written in Squeak (an open-source implementation of Smalltalk-80), Scratch 2 was written in ActionScript, and Scratch 3 was written in HTML5 and JavaScript.

Scratch can be used to create interactive story-boards or games and is a very fun way to learn the basics of developing software.

Scratch may be downloaded for free at: scratch.mit.edu.

Click here for instructions on installing Scratch on your home computer.