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

Influenced

Sense, Snap!, Snap4Arduino

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	#16
GitHub rank	N/A

Scratch

AKA Scratch Visual Programming