Have you ever wanted to design your own video game? With Scratch, an open web-based software created by MIT, you can. The best part about it is that there is no experience needed. I had none when I decided to take a look at the Scratch website. But after a exploring other users' projects, watching a few YouTube tutorials, and playing around on the website myself, I was able to program and play my very first video game, Confection Kick Back, which you can play below.
So, what exactly is Scratch? It is a drag-and-drop coding language created by MIT which makes learning to code, and actually doing it, a lot more accessible to people who never got a degree in Computer Science. It's also a popular place to share what you are working on with other Scratch users in the Scratch community. See a project that you like from another Scratcher? Scratch allows you to look at that user's code to better understand how the project works. You could even remix that project for yourself as a way of taking an established project and experimenting with the variables.
Whether somewhat experienced with programming or absolutely ignorant, Scratch is a great place to enter the world of programming. In just a few hours of starting to use Scratch, you could have a game like Confection Kick Back of your own.
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