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The official Scratch app for Chrome and Android tablets! Scratch is used by millions of kids around the world both in and outside of school. With Scratch, you can code your own interactive stories, games, and animations, then share with your friends, classroom, or a global community of creators. Create anything with Scratch! Choose from a library of characters and backdrops or create your own. It is now possible to play all of your favorite video game right on your computer. Download the free BlueStacks app for PC and Mac to play Geometry Dash SubZero on your computer anytime you want and finally be free of the tethers that come with mobile gaming in an ordinary world.
Same app, new platform.
To port to the desktop, a small database and filesystem layer was rewritten, as well as access to video and sound.Free Scratch Games
This was accomplished using Electron for the app hosting, the original html source of ScratchJR and SQL.js for the project database. Electron is like having your own chrome browser to run one html webpage. And in our case, that webpage is ScratchJR.
Offline mode
Once installed, this app should not require an internet connection to work.Scratch Programming Download Free
Deleting stuff (press and hold mouse)
Because this is a tablet app, there is no right click support. In order to delete stuff you need to click and hold the left mouse button until everything wiggles. When you get a red X, click this to remove characters and projects.Where's the cat?
Sadly, the cat is not allowed to make an official appearance in our app but has sent along all of his friends. Everything (else) you know and love about Scratch Jr on the tablet is there.Getting Started with your Class
Scratch Jr has a set of programming worksheets your class can follow.Where's the data?
All projects are stored locally on the machine inside of a file (which happens to be a sql lite database.) Inside your documents/ScratchJR folder, there will be a scratchjr.sqllite file.Reloading saved projects
For classroom use, sometimes it is handy to pre-configure a set of projects. All of the projects all save into the same Documents/ScratchJR/scratchjr.sqllite file. To set up projects beforehand, you can make a backup copy of this file.Here's how.
- Make starter projects for your class - set up Scratch Jr with the projects you want everyone to use.
- Open up the ScratchJR folder inside of Documents
- Copy the scratchjr.sqllite file to scratchjr.sqllite.restore
- Re-open ScratchJR for desktop.
Thanks
Thank you to the official Scratch Jr team and their supporters. In addition, thank you to the folks working on Electron, ElectronForge, and Sql.js. Thank you to AppVeyor and Travis CL for contributing free Mac, Windows and Linux builds.Finally, a special thank you to ScopeIT Education for donating their technical expertise to this project.
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Support
Note we are working on a volunteer basis and only limited support is available.Having problems? Here's what to do.
- If you have a problem with mac or windows app: file a bug report with us
- If you are unsure how to use ScratchJr, follow the in-app help guide.
- If you want more resources for Scratch Jr: please visit the official page