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Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi: Physical Computing with Circuits, Sensors, Outputs, and Projects
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Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi: Physical Computing with Circuits, Sensors, Outputs, and Projects

by Stewart Watkiss
October 2020
Beginner
394 pages
8h 44m
English
Apress
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© Stewart Watkiss 2020
S. WatkissLearn Electronics with Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6348-8_3

3. Starting with the Basics: Programming with Scratch

Stewart Watkiss1 
(1)
Redditch, UK
 

Scratch is a visual-based programming language. It was designed at MIT for teaching programming to children but has become popular with young and old programmers. Some universities even use it as an introductory language for new students.

The latest version of Scratch is version 3, which is available through a web browser or as a native program on the Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, Scratch 3 uses a lot of memory and so the native client may not work on older versions of the Raspberry Pi or those with limited memory. To run the native Scratch 3 program on ...

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