Department of Computer Applications organises a workshop on Scratch Training Enablement Program

Department of Computer Applications organized a workshop on “STEP” (Scratch Training Enablement Program) under the student chapter of Computer Society of India (CSI) on February 5th – 6th, 2018 with an objective to strengthen the student’s ability of logic building and animation.

The sessions were delivered by Mr Sunny Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences and Ms Deepika Chaudhary, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Applications. In the workshop, Students worked on a well-known tool called ‘Scratch’ which helped them in performing collaborations of programming and logic building. Scratch is a free educational programming language that was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with over 11 million registered users. Scratch is designed to be fun, educational, and easy to learn. It has the tools for creating interactive stories, games, art, simulations, and more, using block-based programming. Scratch even has its own paint editor and sound editor built-in. Users program in Scratch by dragging blocks from the block palette and attaching them to other blocks like a jigsaw puzzle. The total number of students enrolled in this workshop was 71.

The workshop concluded on a successful note and the students were able to make games like Hiding and Seek, Kaun Banega Crorepati, stories and animations. It was all through a great learning experience. The workshop received a very good response from the participants and also a very positive feedback.