Snap! — Build Your Own Blocks About Examples Teachers Links Extensions Mirrors Privacy Thanks Build Your Own Blocks Run Snap! now What do you get if you combine • drag-and-drop interface • visual metaphors for loops, conditionals, etc. • easy animation tools from Scratch + • first class procedures • first class lists • first class objects • first class continuations from Scheme ? You get a broadly inviting programming language for kids and adults that’s also a platform for serious study of computer science. (See the About page for details.) Examples: Animated tree Path Finder Space Invaders Snake Menuet Interactive tree Swimmer Count change Y combinator Animal game Joke Roman numerals Teachers, check out the Beauty and Joy of Computing, an AP CS Principles course using Snap!. Snap! 4.0.10.2 is the current version. Try out the language at http://snap.berkeley.edu/run (the button above). Need help? Read the Reference Manual. Manual updates: First class sprites Tables Linked lists Block Enhancements Still have a question? Ask on our Scratch forum thread. Found a bug? Report it at our Github repository. Looking for BYOB3? Download it here. Turn your project into a standalone executable! First “Export project” and save the resulting XML file. Then go to http://snapp.citilab.eu/ Import Scratch 2.0 projects Go to Snapin8r2 Use devices with Snap!: Orbotix Sphero guide by Connor Hudson and Dan Garcia Lego NXT package by Connor Hudson Nintendo Wiimote package by Connor Hudson Finch and Hummingbird robots package by Tom Lauwers Parallax S2 robot package by Connor Hudson LEAP Motion by Connor Hudson Speech synthesis by Connor Hudson Arduino package by Alan Yorinks Arduino package by Bernat Romagosa/Citilab Fischertechnik ROBOTICS TXT Controller by Richard Kunze Snap! for Raspberry Pi by rasplay.org More Snap! extensions for CS education snap-apps.org provides Edgy for graphs, Cellular for multi-agent simulation, and more. Netsblox for multiplayer networking. Mirror Sites If snap.berkeley.edu is ever unavailable, you can run Snap! at any of these mirror sites: http://bjc.edc.org/snapsource/snap.html https://snap.apps.miosoft.com/ http://media.mit.edu/~harveyb/snap http://cs10.org/snap We recommend bookmarking these now, while this site is up! Browser Requirements Browser Minimum Version Required Additional Notes Chrome 43 Chrome is currently the recommended browser for Snap! Safari 8.4 Firefox 38 Edge 12 Opera 32 IE 11 Internet Explorer does not comply with web standards. Some features (such as audio) may not work with any version. For mobile browsers: Device Version Notes iPhone iOS 8 or higher. However on iOS, uploaded sound files can't be played in a script. (All iOS versions have this restriction.) Android Use Chrome for Android and not the stock browser that comes with some devices. Privacy Notice For research purposes, this site uses Google Analytics to collect aggregate information about, e.g., how often the site is used and what links are followed from it. We do not collect personally identifiable information, but if you have a Gmail account or have ever Googled yourself from your own computer, then, despite their assurances to the contrary, Google does collect such information. We recommend that you use AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, NoScript, and/or Privoxy to protect your browsing privacy. The first two are really easy to install and use; the last two take a bit more effort to whitelist sites you trust. (You might also consider the tracking-free DuckDuckGo search engine.) See our complete privacy policy here. Thanks to... This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 1138596, 1143566, and 1441075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or other funders. Site layout by towerofnix.