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Scratch is a programming environment built by the folks at the Lifelong Kindergarten Lab at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Built using the Smalltalk language and using the Squeak programming environment, Scratch is tri-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux).

Visit its website to download the software and sign up for an account. You must sign up as part of this course but there are a couple requirements about your username: you cannot use any part of your last name; you cannot use any part of American School of Doha; you cannot use the name Doha at all. Make sure to pick something that is appropriate for school or I will require you to change it.

Here is the site.

Getting Started:

The most important thing you can learn throughout this couse is to EXPERIMENT AND EXPLORE your programming environment. There are several resouces that Scratch provides on its website and I've included them here for you. Scratch site with projects from Scratch Cards