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Acknowledgments

It’s misleading to have just my name on the cover. This book
wouldn’t exist without the efforts of many people. I’d like to
thank my publisher, Bill Pollock; my editors, Laurel Chun and
Tyler Ortman; my technical reviewer, Martin Tan; my copy-
editor, Anne Marie Walker; and all of the staff at No Starch
Press.
Thanks to the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten
group for their development of Scratch, which has a long chain
of influential thinkers: Mitchel Resnick, Seymour Papert,
Marvin Minsky, and Jean Piaget. While we give the younger
generation a ride on our shoulders, let’s never forget where we
ourselves stand.
Special thanks to the Museum of Art and Digital Enter-
tainment in Oakland, California. A video game museum is as
fun to be involved with as it sounds, and volunteering with
MADE’s weekend Scratch class has been thoroughly reward-
ing. If Alex Handy, Mike Pavone, and William Morgan hadn’t
started the Scratch class, I never would’ve come up with the
idea for this book. I’ll see y’all next Saturday.