Hello. I made my own account on snap.berkeley.edu in December 2025. Can you give me tips? If you do, I would appreciate it.
Best tip is to first search the community when you have a question.
My tip is to start small with projects, gradually building up your skills before you try anything difficult. If you are already pretty good at problem solving then you can try for something challenging but i would recommend starting off with lots of nice little projects rather than a huge complex one.
Welcome to Snap!!
Here are some tips that may help you:
How to use the forums
Forum Etiquette
(Etiquette basically means manners for those who don’t know)
When using forums, you should stay on topic if you want to reply. If you do have an off-topic question/reply, I would put it in the same reply as an on-topic reply.
Replying on an old topic is necroposting, and may be considered spam, especially if it is an off-topic reply. However, if you do have a question relevant to the original post or have some additional information, feel free to reply to it!
You can call someone by place @ in front of their username, like @da-ultimate-creater. It sends that person a notification. However, some people may not like it, so you should only use it if you are replying to a person or if you have a question you want to ask them.
Finally, you should always be respectful on forums.
Using categories
Here there are many different categories. They have many different uses.
The Help with Snap! category is used if you ever have a question about anything. This also splits into different sub-categories, such as
Help with Snap! > Snap! Editor
Help with Snap! > Snap! Community Site
and Help with Snap! > Snap! Forums.
For topics in these categories, you can mark a reply as a solution. Don’t forget to do that if someone has answered your question!
The Share your Projects category is if you want to show off any projects you have been working on. You can also ask for feedback on your projects here.
The Bug reports category is if you find a bug in Snap! itself, such as the editor crashing or a visual bug on the main site. You should provide details on how it happened, where, how to reproduce the bug, and a screenshot.
The Requests to the Community category can be used for many different things, like help with ideas, art, and music. If you want to collaborate with other people to make a project, you should use the Requests to the Community > Collaborations sub-category.
Coding tips
Just came from Scratch?
If you just came from Scratch and feel uncomfortable with the Snap! interface, you can change the settings to make it look a bit more like Scratch. Choose Settings > Looks, then check “Bright Theme” and “Flat Design”. There is also a user script d016 made a while back called Split!. It makes the blocks truly look like Scratch design. Here it is if you want: 
. You should also turn on Javascript Extensions in settings before you use it, or it will not work.
(The block above is a script pic. You can drag it directly into the Snap! editor! Neat, isn’t it?)
If you are used to the single palette in Scratch, there is a setting to enable it in Snap!. Just select the “Single Palette” options in settings.
Need help?
If you need help for code, like if you don’t know how to make a sprite do something or if you need a custom block to do something, you can ask these questions in the Help with Snap! > Snap! Editor category. However, you should always try it yourself first.
Bugs in your projects
If you have a bug in your project, don’t immediately come running to the forums to get someone else to solve it for you. Instead, try to solve it on your own a few times. That helps you learn. Now, if you tried millions of times and can’t fix it or have no idea where to start, that is when you can ask the forums for help.
To make bug-testing easier, you can use “Visible stepping”, which slows down the speed at which the code runs significantly, allowing you to see which block is running when. To enable this, press the button near the green flag to the right that looks like footprints. You can also make use of pausing and temporarily insert the 
block.
(That block is a script pic, like mobility212 mentions below. You can drag it directly into the editor! Neat, isn’t it?)
Make sure to put these types of questions in the Help with Snap! > Snap! Editor category.
I’m making this into a wiki in case anyone wants to add on.
I will also add on in the future.
Welcome to Snap! Forum!
Right now, you have the new user trust level, so posting links or images is not allowed. To get promoted to the next level which you can post links and images, just keep reading the forum.
If you do need to post a link as a new user, surround the link in backticks:
`https://snap.berkeley.edu/`
which renders as https://snap.berkeley.edu/.
If you do need to post an image of a Snap! script as a new user, you can either convert your script to Lisp code (right-click on a script, select “Lisp code…”, right-click on the code shown) or post a link to your project (don’t forget to share it!).
Finally, if you are able to post images, great! However, if you post images of scripts, instead of taking a screenshot, right-click on the script and choose “script pic…”. Using script pics allows us to retrieve the script easily without replicating it by hand, because you can drag script pics and drop them into the editor!
Oh, okay
Thanks for the tip