Scratch is a simple, interactive, collaborative software development environment for creating interactive stories, animations, games, music, and graphics—and publishing them on the Internet. Scratch is designed to help children (ages 8 and up) implement 21st century educational skills. As they create Scratch projects, children learn important math and computer concepts and gain a deeper understanding of the design process.

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment.

The basic features of Geany are:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
- call tips
- many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
- symbol lists
- embedded terminal emulation