Click the green flag icon above the Stage. Your cat now says "Hello!"

Drag this block into the Scripts Area:

Because you are on scratch.mit.edu , saving is cloud-based.

The editor's layout is intuitive once you know what each section does.

This comprehensive tutorial is your ultimate guide to the journey. By the end of this article, you will understand every button, menu, and script block in the Scratch interface, and you will have created your first working project.

Allows you to save your project now (though Scratch auto-saves periodically), start a new project, or upload/download projects to your local computer.

Click the question mark icon (❓) on the far right of the editor to open the built-in tutorial library. It includes step-by-step guides on how to make games, create stories, and animate characters.

It’s not a video. It’s not a separate tour. It’s a where you actually build something small.

The editor has three distinct tabs at the top of the left panel.

Go to scratch.mit.edu , click Create , and break something. Then, fix it. That is how real programmers learn.

Once you master the basics, Scratch 3.0 offers powerful extensions that connect your code to the real world. You can add new block categories by clicking the blue button at the bottom of the Block Palette [12†L33-L35]. Popular extensions include:

If you are logged into a Scratch account, your project automatically saves to the cloud. Click the title box at the top of the editor to rename your project, and click the Share button to let the global Scratch community play and comment on your creation.

Every sprite can have multiple "Costumes" (visual appearances) and "Sounds". You can access these via the tabs located next to the "Code" tab in the top-left corner. Changing Costumes Select the tab.