Scratch – um primeiro olhar

• Published in: Texto livre Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 137 - 152
• Main Authors: Flávia Linhalis Arantes, José Michael Leandro da Silva Ferreira, Paula Eduarda Justino Ribeiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 01-12-2015
• Subjects: beginners in programming; programming language; Scratch
• ISSN: 1983-3652
• DOI: 10.17851/1983-3652.8.1.%25p

In this paper, we report the “Scratch, a first glance” activity, conducted with the aim of registering the impressions and the responses of students when they looked for the first time to Scratch programs. We present a review on the characterization of Scratch language and environment, trying to identify what a student who never had contact with programming can use to extract information from the programs. Different from other works in literature, we highlight the commands written in the mother tongue of the students as a great facilitator to the understanding of the programs by the beginners. The results of the experiments show that the ability to read the programs is of great importance in the understanding from those who never had previous contact with programming.