These events that are often organised and attended by independent game developers are for people looking to create a game from scratch in a short amount of time - often one or two days.

Note that in some programming languages, you have to create different types of variables if you want to store different types of data, but you don't need to worry about that in Scratch.

In a companion to Woodcock’s recent Coding Games in Scratch, readers are shown how to use the free programming language Scratch to create playful animations, games, and other programs. Woodcock ...

Learning with Scratch Most of Jeff Elkner's students are learning English as a second language. Creating animated stories with Scratch helps them practice their vocabulary words.