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Programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is easy to use even by children so anyone can enjoy building sprites or other animations.

What's New in This Release:

Keyboard Input:

• The block (in the Sensing category) allows you to ask a person a question and have them type in a response. The keyboard input is saved in the block.

Camera:

• If your computer has a built-in or USB webcam, the "Camera" button in the Costumes tab allows you to quickly snap a photo or a sequence of photos.

String operations:

• The Numbers category has been renamed to "Operators" because it now contains blocks for manipulating strings.
• The block combines two strings (letters or other characters).
• The block reports the letter of at the specified position in the string.
• The block reports the length of a string.
• The block can be used to find out if a list contains a particular word or number.

LEGO< WeDo:
Scratch can now interface to the LEGO Education WeDo robotics kit.

The "Show Motor Blocks" command in the Edit menu makes five motor blocks appearin the "Motion" category:
turns the motor on for the specified number of seconds. ...