Scratch+Start+1.4+Interface

INTRODUCTION
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games, and animations and share your creations with others on the web. Scratch version 1.4, released July 2009. Now have Version 2.0 Web Based. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Nokia, and the MIT Media Lab research consortia.

BASIC INGREDIENTS OF A SCRATCH PROJECT
Scratch projects are made up of objects called sprites. You can change how a sprite looks by giving it a different costume. You can make a sprite look like a person or a train or a butterfly or anything else. You can use any image as a costume: you can draw an image in the Paint Editor, import an image from your hard disk, or drag in an image from a website. You can give instructions to a sprite, telling it to move or play music or react to other sprites. To tell a sprite what to do, you snap together graphic blocks into stacks, called scripts. When you click on a script, Scratch runs the blocks from the top of the script to the bottom.

STAGE

 * The Stage is where you see your stories, games, and animations come to life. Sprites move and interact with one another on the Stage.
 * The Stage is 480 units wide and 360 units tall. It is divided into an x-y grid. The middle of the Stage has an x-coordinate of 0 and a y-coordinate of 0.
 * find out x-y positions on the Stage, move the mouse (cursor) around and look at the mouse x-y display just below the Stage
 * Click the Presentation Mode button when you want to present your project. To exit Presentation Mode, press the Esc key.
 * Click the View Mode buttons to switch between small and large stage view. You can use small stage view to display Scratch on small screens or to expand the Scripts Area.

Green Flag: Means Run Project Red Stop Sign: Stops Animation or Activity