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Where to Go

From Here

Ready for more? There are plenty of Scratch resources to keep
things exciting.

X X Scratch Programming Playground Studio (http://
www.inventwithscratch.com/studio/) is a place to share
your own games based on the ones in the book! You can
check out other readers’ projects while you’re there.

X X The Scratch Forums (http://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/) is
a place for Scratchers to share ideas and ask and answer
questions.
X X Learn to Program with Scratch by Majed Marji
(No Starch Press, 2014; https://www.nostarch com/
.
learnscratch/), is a book with more projects for learn-
ing computer science concepts in Scratch.

X X ScratchEd (http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/), is an
online community created for teachers and other edu-
cators who use Scratch. Share your success stories,
exchange Scratch resources, ask questions, and more.

There are many fun games and animations you can make
with Scratch, but it does have some limitations. Your Scratch
programs might not look like “real” games you play on a PC,
game console, or smartphone.
So it’s only natural that you might want to learn how to
write code in a professional programming language. There are
many languages to choose from, but I recommend Python or
JavaScript. Python is the easiest language to learn (aside from
Scratch) but it is still a language used by professional software
developers. JavaScript is not quite as easy, but it’s the lan-
guage used for web apps that run in your browser.