Scratch

Question 1

What is Scratch?

Answer

What is Scratch? Scratch is developed by the MIT Lab and used by students, teachers and young programmers worldwide to create animations and games. It consists of a visual programming interface focusing on introducing computing to young programmers. Please refer to scratch.mit.edu for its programming interface.

Question 2

Why learn from Coding101?

Answer

Coding101 has been teaching Scratch to children as an introductory course to programming since 2014, and has been continuously improving our curriculum to students of different ages.

Question 3

What can Scratch do?

Answer

It consists of media-rich commands that allows programmers to create animations and games using drag-and-drop programming interface.

Question 4

Who is this course for?

Answer

Any children of age 6 or older and are interested in programming. Indeed, the software has been used by millions of children around the world.

Question 5

What should I prepare for the class?

Answer

Students just need to come with their own laptop (Windows / Mac), with Chrome installed. Please prepare computer login information and administrator access for students before the first lesson. Mouse and charger are highly recommended during the lesson.

Question 6

What should I know about online teaching?

Answer

Using 2 devices in class is recommended (Laptop/Desktop computer with Chrome installed for practice, phone/tablet for video conference). Students will be asked to switch on camera and mic during the online class. Online classes may be recorded for internal use such as quality assurance and training purposes.