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What's new with Scratch 3.0?

What's new with Scratch 3.0? - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

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What's new with Scratch 3.0?

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- [Mark] Scratch is a visual block based programming language with the ability to control the Raspberry Pi. Scratch 3 was recently released for the Raspberry Pi and now comes installed as part of the latest version of Raspbian. Among other improvements, Scratch now boasts a super simple way to control LEDs and buttons. Let's take a look. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross and welcome to this week's edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. Every week we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. There are a lot of under the hood improvements to Scratch 3 including HTML 5, a redesigned interface, new blocks, and a new extension interface. One immediate thing to note is that Scratch 3 requires more memory and processing power. The recommendation is to run this on a Raspberry Pi 4, but you may be able to run it on a Raspberry Pi 3. Aside from that, what we're really interested in, with this course, are the specific enhancements for…

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