So I was talking to one of my professors this week and he introduced me to this interesting browser based application called Scratch. I had never tried it out before so I decided to make myself an account. Scratch is free to use and will work on Mac and Windows. Scratch will work with Chrome, Firefox and Safari. For Scratch to run make sure your browsers are updated as well as Adobe Flash Player.
When I opened up scratch I immediately went to the create section. You start off with this cat on the screen and scripts that you are able to drag and drop to create movement for the cat. There are several different objects that you can add movement to. On the right side there are tutorials that can be completed. I tried out the create a pong game. It was simple and easy to understand the directions. It is an easy way to teach students about loops and if then statements. Each step-by-step takes under thirty minutes to complete. Scratch is very user friendly and and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to see how to program their own games.
There are a lot of games that people have created using Scratch. I played quite a few of these games and I lost track of time. It amazing how creative people can be with the programing tools that they have. Click here to look at the games created using Scratch.
I was browsing their game section and I played this amazing maze game. It took me a while to complete but it was worth it. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/106719153/
Scratch is an amazing way to program but if you have a child that you may think is too young for Scratch they have something called ScratchJr click here to check it out.
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