Scratch comparisons
Scratch is compared head-to-head with CodeAI (formerly Code.org), freeCodeCamp and MIT App Inventor and more: 6 head-to-heads in Coding Learning Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Scratch head-to-head
- Scratch vs CodeAI (formerly Code.org)
- Scratch vs freeCodeCamp
- Scratch vs MIT App Inventor
- Scratch vs Codewars
- Scratch vs LeetCode
- Scratch vs Project Euler
Scratch vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Feedback mode | Learning format | Programming languages | Project-based learning | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Scratch | Yes | Free | Mixed | Mixed | Scratch (visual, block-based programming language) | Yes | 9.1 |
| 1 | CodeAI (formerly Code.org) | Yes | Free | Mixed | Mixed | JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Java | Yes | 9.4 |
| 2 | freeCodeCamp | Yes | Free | Automated | Mixed | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Bash | Yes | 9.3 |
| 5 | MIT App Inventor | Yes | Free | Instant | Mixed | Yes | 9.0 | |
| 6 | Codewars | Yes | $40/yr | Automated | Exercises | Agda, BF, C, CFML, C++, COBOL, CoffeeScript, Clojure, CommonLisp, Coq, Crystal, C#, D, Dart, Elixir, Elm, Erlang, Factor, Forth, Fortran, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Haxe, Idris, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, λ Calculus, Lean, Lua, NASM, Nim, Objective-C, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Prolog, PureScript, Python, R, Racket, Raku, Reason, RISC-V, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Shell, Solidity, SQL, Swift, TypeScript, VB | No | 8.9 |
| 7 | LeetCode | Yes | Mixed | Mixed | C++, Java, Python, C, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Swift, Go, Scala, Kotlin, Rust, MySQL, Bash | No | 8.8 | |
| 8 | Project Euler | Yes | Free | Exercises | 8.7 |
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