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3. Starting with the Basics: Programming with Scratch

Stewart Watkiss1 
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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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