Scratch programming language

Summary

A visual block-based programming language designed for education and learning the fundamentals of programming, focused on creating interactive stories, games, and animations.

Paradigms

event-driven, visual, imperative

Domains

education, game development, animation

Key Features

hot reload, interactive development, modules, iterators/generators

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, strong typing, full inference, runtime checking, none type coercion, no type annotations

Compilation

interpreted

Influenced By

Logo, Smalltalk, Etoys, StarLogo, AgentSheets

Ratings

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File extensions

sb, sb2, sb3, sprite, sprite2, sprite3

External Links

Status	active
Type	programming
Created	2001
Designed by	Mitchel Resnick John Maloney Andrés Monroy-Hernández Natalie Rusk
Developed by	MIT Media Lab
PyPL Index	N/A
TIOBE Index	#14
GitHub rank	N/A

Scratch

AKA Scratch Visual Programming