Scratch (programming language)

Scratch is a high level, block based visual programming language created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, led by Mitchel Resnick, working with a team led by Yasmin Kafai at UCLA, with funding from the National Science Foundation beginning in 2003; a prototype appeared on June 30, 2003, and the first official release, Scratch 1.0, launched on May 15, 2007. It is aimed at children and beginners roughly ages five to sixteen, letting them build games, animations, stories and simulations by dragging and connecting visual blocks rather than typing text, under the project's own motto of Imagine, Program, Share. By February 2023, users had shared more than 123 million projects, with over 103 million registered users and more than 95 million monthly visits to the Scratch website, and the platform has been translated into more than seventy languages. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/