Scratch

Category: coding community tool

Industries: Marketing, Education

Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem solving skills; creative teaching and learning; self-expression and collaboration; and equity in computing.

Scratch is always free and is available in more than 70 languages.

Who Uses Scratch?
Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers.

Learn to Code, Code to Learn
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. When people learn to code in Scratch, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas.

Around the World
Scratch is used in more than 200 different countries and territories and is available in more than 70 languages. To change languages, click the menu at the bottom of the page. Or, in the Project Editor, click the globe at the top of the page. To add or improve a translation.

Scratch in Schools
Students are learning with Scratch at all levels (from elementary school to college) and across disciplines (such as math, computer science, language arts, social studies). Educator resources are available on the Scratch For Educators page.

Quotes

The Scratch Team has received many emails from youth, parents, and educators expressing thanks for Scratch. Want to see what people are saying? You can read a collection of the quotes we’ve received.

Research
The Lifelong Kindergarten group and collaborators are researching how young people create, collaborate, and learn with Scratch. For an overview, see the article Coding at a Crossroads and the book Lifelong Kindergarten. To find out more about the use of Scratch, see the statistics page and the Scratch Annual Report.

Support and Funding
Scratch is available for free, thanks to support from our donors. This support helps us provide kids around the world with opportunities to imagine, create, and share. You can support Scratch by making a donation here.

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Most popular feedback for Scratch

Scratch is a pretty good website! I'm more an artist than a person that makes games, but I make animations and Scratch has helped me learn how to code in a few ways! I didn't really use the tutorials, I kind of figured it out myself, but I'm sure they're nice! The reason I gave it a 4 is because their filterbot is pretty much broken. Even if I say a simple word, like once I said egg, the filterbot muted me and I couldn't comment for 10 minutes. The other things are that the scratch team doesn't do anything about art theft, copyright, and those other things that might be illegal. They also ban users for no reason, such as posting a harmless project or saying a harmless word. The scratch team is fine, but I think they should know if a project is fine and a 3 year old with a karen mom reports it just to be "funny."

-Alex H.

Highlights

Pricing
Free

Pros	Cons
1	some find the new interface inconvenient and complain that some of their projects are not working properly
"Now you can watch and create projects from your smartphone or tablet	About the interface: everything new seems inconvenient, but you will get used to it.And about the glitches: at the moment this is the biggest drawback of this version, but the Scratch Team is actively working to fix this problem, so you should not worry
It's comfortable."2	I hope this article (the idea to write this came to my mind at 12 at night) turned out to be useful
"Scratch is transferred to a more current platform and will continue to work after Adobe Flash becomes obsolete."3	Grin See you soon!"
"Improved sound editor - there are new options that made this process more exciting."	-

Contact

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https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas

Scratch reviews

As a scratcher named LarryMcCuteFace i enjoy scratch as amazing community coding for both children and adults. Many of my friends enjoy scratch not even realising they where learning. It is great.

- Penny P.

I like this 2d game engine, but they need to add more stuff. They also need to make it a bit easier.

- John L.

I love this Scratch to do many Projects. And it is very interesting. But when we keep the coding as a conversation, if the person speaks with their mouth, it would be pretty Good!

- Subhashini N.

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