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Teach Scratch Programming with Open Source Books

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OSSBlog.org; By Steve Emms
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Scratch has received many plaudits as an ideal way to introduce kids to computer programming and computational thinking. It’s a fantastic beginner’s language. Scratch is often used to make games, interactive stories, and animations, but it can be used for any purpose. The language helps students to think creatively, reason logically, and work together.

Scratch is released under an open source license. The recommended texts in this article are also similarly licensed.

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https://scratch.mit.edu/info/faq

while scratch up to 1.4 has been developed in smalltalk, scratch 2 has been rewritten with flash.

they also claim to only support chrome on linux. maybe that has to do with the flash support.

it appears that the next major version of scratch will be in javascript (based on googles blockly: https://scratch.mit.edu/developers ).

with flash support dying that will hopefully be ready soon soon.

greetings, eMBee.

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