I have always loved technology and have been in computer classes since kindergarten. I have excelled at anything computer or technology related in school. I am the go-to person for any technology issues at home and at work. I am excited to learn different aspects of technology and explore other programming languages. I will present my experiences over the past week with Scratch and programming languages.
Scratch is a great program to help build simple interactive stories, games, and animations. This is my first time hearing or using Scratch, so I was unsure what to do. There are many options on the screen to use, so it was a bit overwhelming at first. There was a tutorial on the screen, so I watched it first to find out what to do. The video is very short, so I found other videos on YouTube to help use Scratch. This exercise shows that programming does not have to be complicated. Scratch is the world's most popular coding for kids to create their own interactive stories, games, and animations (Project Overview' Scratch). Scratch enables users to begin coding at any age by using simple commands. The ease of using Scratch is far better than machine, assembly, and programming languages. Machine language uses 0's and 1's, assembly language takes the 0's and 1's and puts them in a human-understandable form, and Python converts high-level instruction to assembly/machine instruction (Vahid & Lysecky, 2019). Scratch offers all-block programming and is a visually simplified programming language.
I found Python to be the easiest mainly because I learned Python in a previous course. The next would be Scratch. I see why kids love using Scratch and creating new things. Most programmers will use Python or a high-level language like it. For this reason, I believe this is the most popular.
Computers and Technology is a field that is growing at a fast pace. Every year humans are advancing how we learn and operate. Early programmers entered a program into a computer by manually connecting wires or switches. Now programmers can enter the code with a high program language like Python to build websites and software or automate tasks. MIT created Scratch, which allows for block coding. Scratch is a great beginner to code and introduces kids to code at an early age.
Link to Scratch project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/807152480/
References
Project Overview ' Scratch. MIT Media Lab. (n.d.). Retrieved February 20, 2023, from https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/scratch/overview/
Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2019). Computing technology for all. zyBooks.
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