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Jan 2, 2019 · With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
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Blocks
1. Many blocksare replaced in a different order. 2. Events Blocks are the color of the Scratch 2.0 Control Blocks, and control blocks are a bit lighter than the old events blocks. 3. The blocks have been slightly enlarged for mobile users. 4. More Blocks has been renamed as My Blocksand is a shade of light red, closely resembling pink. 5. Default inputs have been changed on some blocks. 6. Music blocks, Video Sensing blocks, and pen blockshave been moved to extensions. 7. New extensions: Text...
Paint Editor
1. Main article: Paint Editor 1. The Vector editor is now the default. 2. New color selector and eraser tool. 3. Many tools have been moved 4. Many options, such as deletion, going forward/backward layers, copying and pasting, and grouping are now shown by default instead of only appearing when a specific tool is selected. 5. Fonts have been replaced with Sans Serif, Serif (Times), Handwriting, Marker, Curly, Pixel, 中文 (Chinese), 日本語 (Japanese), and 한국어 (Korean).
Sound Editor
1. Main article: Sound Editor 1. The Edit and Effects tabs have been combined. 2. Some Edit tools have been moved above the sound viewer.
On January 9, 2019, the Scratch Team released new updates for Scratch 3.0, fixing many bugs Scratchers had reported. This included projects getting stuck on the loading screen, and the love and favorites not showing up. This announcement was shown on the Front Page. In early-mid January 2019, the front page banner was changed from "The new Scratch ...
Negative reception
Scratch 3.0 was criticized for its lack of new features and changes to the user interface. Some users quit Scratch because they were dissatisfied with the new design and/or did not like the changes made to Scratch as well as compatibility issues with old projects. Many community members critical of the new version used the icon of "Thanos Cat", a combination of the Scratch Cat and the head of Thanos from the Avengers film franchise who eliminated half of the universe's population by snapping...
Positive reception
There has been much praise for 3.0 as a smaller countermovement but is also evident by the Scratch Cat's project "Scratch 3.0 is here!" receiving over 6000 Loves and almost 2000 Remixesas of March 2023.
A comparison of the horizontal and vertical block layoutA design chart for the Move () stepsblockDesign charts for various blocksAnother design chart for some vertical blocksScratch is a coding platform for young people to express themselves and learn computer science. Explore projects, join events, and discover resources for educators, parents, and creators.
Scratch 3.0 tutorials help students learn how to make projects with Scratch, a free coding platform for kids. The tutorials are open-ended, inspiring, and easy to use in the Scratch project editor.
