{"id":31257,"date":"2018-12-21T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=31257"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:54:09","slug":"scratch-3-0-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/scratch-3-0-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch 3.0 is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch is a seminal object oriented programming language that has had a great deal of  influence on other languages. It is an entry level system designed for <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/28\/learn-scratch-programming-for-kids-and-adults\/\">kids and adults new to programming<\/a>.  If you have a kid doing any kind of robotics or STEM programming in elementary school, they are using a programming langauge that derives from Scratch.<\/p>\n<p>It comes out of MIT, and is usually used on their server, using a web interface.<\/p>\n<p>That web interface is closing at 7 AM on January 2nd.  Later that afternoon, it will be back up, but with Scratch 3.0!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ofHiea__hU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially excited about the physical interface tools. Some of that was already in place in a separate parallel project that was more experimental.  It is nice to see Scratch itself advancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch is a seminal object oriented programming language that has had a great deal of influence on other languages. It is an entry level system designed for kids and adults new to programming. If you have a kid doing any kind of robotics or STEM programming in elementary school, they are using a programming langauge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/scratch-3-0-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scratch 3.0 is coming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5028],"tags":[974,2331,1001],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sratch_program.png?fit=639%2C253&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-889","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31260,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31257\/revisions\/31260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}