
ScratchJr
Scratch Foundation, Inc.
3.9
Advertisement
Advertisement
With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.
By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.
ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development.
ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications.
If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.
Release Details
Publisher Country | US |
Country Release Date | 2014-07-29 |
Categories | Education |
Country / Regions | US |
Support URL | Scratch Foundation, Inc. |
Content Rating | 4+ |
Average Rating
1.30K+
Rating Breakdown
Featured Reviews
By Amy Hua Kitty Cat
2020-11-26
Version 1.2.11
AudioBugsThere is this mail letter thing, you can choose different colors for it to trigger a signal in your coding thing, or, whatever you call what it does. There is only a few colors, not a lot. I don’t like that part, because I have a lot more things to use that mail thingy than just 6 colors. Can we maybe put a text, instead of colors? Like, any text. For example: “car”. And on the character, you put the same text on that mail thingy. And the action happens. Also, why only 4 scenes? Can we add more than 4 scenes? I also want the audio recording quality a little better. There is this noise sound, it makes the recording sound a little glitchy, I also want to have a feature where you can just get audio from your audio library, or video library. Thank you, I just want an improvement to make coding better. Overall from this, this app is great! Thank you for reading.
By RandomSheep1424
2024-04-17
Version 1.5.11
BugsHate itThe Block Speed block has a bug that if you leave a project that has a speed block set to slow and then come back to it later, those blocks change to normal speed blocks. The rest of the game is just fun. However, the paint editor sometimes locks a piece of your sprite into place. If you want to change it’s place, you’d just have to ruin it with the move/line changing tool and then fix it up.😕 Please fix. I’m tired of it!!!
By FrozenFriedChicken
2022-11-12
Version 1.4.14
DifficultHate itThe drawing tool is hard to use and you can only have four frames. When you draw to create or edit a character, the app distorts the lines you draw and doesn’t allow you to draw anything small. If you draw a curved or squiggly line, it’ll often straighten the line unless it has very dramatic squiggles. Your drawing of a parentheses may end up looking like a straight line or a less than sign. If you’re drawing the letter E, it’ll often connect the lines and make it look more like a box with funny looking triangles. If you’re drawing a tiny circle, it literally won’t appear unless you draw it larger. It makes it frustrating to draw anything. In addition, projects are only limited to four frames, so you’re restricted to making only incredibly simple games/stories/etc. A small selection of only 40 colors also limits creativity. But overall, if you’re making small, short, simple projects with the pre-made characters, it’s an okay app.
Screenshots
