Scratch
AKA Scratch Visual Programming
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
Ratings
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 | #18 |
| GitHub rank | N/A |