Scratch 3 Programming Playground. Copyright © 2021 by Al Sweigart.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0021-1 (print)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0022-8 (ebook)

Publisher: William Pollock
Executive Editor: Barbara Yien
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Developmental Editor: Frances Saux
Cover Illustration: Josh Ellingson
Illustrator: Miran Lipovača
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Compositor: Happenstance Type-O-Rama
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the first edition as follows:

Names: Sweigart, Al, author.
Title: Scratch programming playground : learn to program by making cool games
   / Al Sweigart.
Description: San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2016] | Audience: Ages 8+. |
   Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022304 (print) | LCCN 2016024406 (ebook) | ISBN
   9781593277628 | ISBN 1593277628 | ISBN 9781593277963 (epub) | ISBN
   1593277962 (epub) | ISBN 9781593277970 ( mobi) | ISBN 1593277970 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Scratch (Computer program language)--Juvenile literature. |
   Computer games--Programming--Juvenile literature. | Computer
   programming--Juvenile literature. | Microcomputers--Programming--Juvenile
   literature.
Classification: LCC QA76.73.S345 S94 2016 (print) | LCC QA76.73.S345 (ebook)
   | DDC 005.13/3--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022304

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