the basics of

scratch

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the stage - this is where your product is shown, it’s the visual result of code blocks the block palette - this contains scratch’s equivalent of code (blocks) the scripts area - this is where you arrange your blocks to make things happen the sprites pane - backdrops and sprites are managed here the toolbar - similar to most programs, the save and open dialogues are here

the scratch user interface

the stage

the block palette

the scripts area

the sprites pane

the toolbar

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block palette groups

used to alter the appearance of the spriteeg. colours, costumes, speech bubbles

looks

controls the direction and speed of the sprites on the stage

motion

controls sounds attached to sprites

sound

tools that allow users to draw on the stage

pen

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allows the user to make and store variables

data

control blocks dictate the behaviour of other blocks placed within/after them eg. repeat forever

control

plays a block after a specific event eg. keys clicked, start flag clicked

events

blocks that detect different factors including distances, mouse position and date/time

sensing

used to combine/compare blocks and execute a variety of other mathematical operations

operators