> It was the community aspects that really drew in my kids. They would get really excited whenever somebody followed them or “loved” one of their projects. It g

> It was the community aspects that really drew in my kids. They would get really excited whenever somebody followed them or “loved” one of their projects. It gave them the motivation to build more ambitious things. This is really what sparked my love of coding and, more broadly, creating things when I made projects in Scratch as a kid in the early 2010s. Seeing all of the positive feedback on stuff I posted as well as seeing the awesome stuff other people posted motivated me to keep one-upping myself with cooler and cooler projects. Those who downplay the positive effect Scratch can have on kids tend to overlook this part of the equation.