Pocket Code: Learn programming

Catrobat

About this app

Program, play, and share your own games, animations, interactive art, music videos, and many kinds of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet!

One Hour of Code tutorial: http://catrob.at/HourOfCode - for other tutorials see http://catrob.at/i and http://catrob.at/help

Pocket Code allows you to create, edit, execute, share, and remix Catrobat programs in a visual programming environment and programming language. You can remix programs that others have made and share them with your friends and the world. With Pocket Code you can up- and download Catrobat programs through the Pocket Code community website at http://pocketcode.org/ --- All Catrobat programs uploaded to this site can be downloaded by anyone under a free open source license to maximize learning, remixing, and sharing them freely.

Catrobat is a visual programming language and set of creativity tools for smartphones, tablets, and mobile browsers. Catrobat and the software developed by the Catrobat team are inspired by the programming system developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Pocket Code is ideally suited for the Hour of Code during the Computer Science Education Week http://csedweek.org/ organized by code.org, the European Code Week http://codeweek.eu/ as well as Google's "Made with Code" initiative https://www.madewithcode.com/ --- and it also is available on Google Play for Education http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/edu/about.html in Google's Android market.

Catrobat --- http://www.catrobat.org/ and http://developer.catrobat.org/ --- is an independent non-profit project creating free open source software (FOSS) under AGPL and CC-BY-SA licenses. The growing international Catrobat team is entirely composed of volunteers. The results of many of our subprojects will be made available in the months and years to come, e.g., the ability to control more robots, or to create music in an easy and fun way. Currently we are working hard on extending Pocket Code as the next step with a physics engine that is almost ready and will allow you to program in a very easy and fun way your own Maze types of games.

Please note that Pocket Code currently runs well only on smartphones and tablets with a screen size up to 7".

Want to help us translate Pocket Code into your language? Please contact us via [e-mail] telling us for which language you would be able to help. Even languages not directly supported by Android are welcome, as we are working on a way to switch manually to these languages.

News: http://www.catrobat.org/#news
Social media and newsletter: http://www.catrobat.org/#contact

We are all pro-bono unpaid volunteers working in our free time on this not-for-profit free open source project aiming at increasing computational thinking skills among teens and kids all around the world. Our apps will always remain free of ads and free of costs, so please give us some slack if we cannot solve bugs or add features immediately. On the other hand this allows the project to remain independent of any financing and ensures that it can keep running basically forever, so there is no danger that we will stop working on it. Already more than 500 volunteers have contributed to our project so far.

Ratings and reviews

I love this app SO much! It's a fun way to make games and spend your time. Definitely would recommend! But I have ran into a problem. See I cannot view the newest projects or the example ones to see others projects uploaded. And I can't see my own projects. Plus I'm having difficulty logging into my account. When this is fix then I give this 5 Stars! Overall good app aside from those issues.

This app is amazing!!!, it really brings out the creative side of slot of people including me, as someone who is a great drawer, and an animator, I had always wanted to make my art interactive. EDIT: still great even after the update, there is this one thing that happen, not sure if you guys took it out or if it's a bug, but the place visually function won't work, everytine i press on it it won't let me place visualy, and so I just wanted to say that on hopes you can guys fix it

This is great. I spent lots of time looking for a decent game engine, but could find none. But when I found this, it was exactly what I wanted. Unlike all other apps I could find at the time, this one lets you make whatever type of 2d game you want, and program it your way. The only thing I think is missing, however, is a video player, or something that could play GIFs or videos. Maybe a block that says "Play video for (_) seconds with/out audio." And then you just upload a video. Still great!

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Thanks to all contributors!
Contribute as a developer, designer, educator, in marketing or in many other roles: https://catrob.at/contributing