Post #1 Programming Languages

Scratch Project 



I have some previous experience using Scratch from a programming course I took in high school,
roughly 4 years ago. Some insights that I gained after completing my Scratch project were
grasping the fundamentals of how a computer requires the information to function the way I want it to. If 
I was not precise enough with my instructions, then the program would do something I did not
intend it to do. This showed me that when coding, I have to know what I am planning to do
beforehand, and code exactly that in order for it to work properly

The differences I noticed between Scratch and other written programming languages are plenty. In Scratch, the blocks are pre-coded, so it is a drag-and-drop system to get the program to do what you want. But with other languages, you have to type everything out. The programming language I found to be easiest to understand, aside from Scratch, is Python. I found the syntax that Python uses to be simple and easier to understand than the rest of the programming languages covered in the text. Each programming language has its uses for different jobs, like web development, game development, and object-oriented programming. In my opinion Python is the most popular.

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