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Overview
Scratch makes it easy to create your own games, animations, music, art or applications. It’s the perfect way to learn programming because it takes away a lot of the complexity. That means you can focus on having great ideas and bringing them to life. With Scratch Programming in easy steps, 2nd edition as your companion, you’ll learn how to:
Scratch Programming in easy steps, 2nd edition will help you to get creative and become a super Scratcher!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781840788594 |
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Publisher: | In Easy Steps Limited |
Publication date: | 12/25/2019 |
Series: | In Easy Steps |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 216 |
Sales rank: | 1,041,206 |
Product dimensions: | 7.20(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 8 Years |
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Table of Contents
1 Introducing Scratch 7
What is Scratch? 8
Creating a Scratch account 9
Meet Scratch 3 10
Using the Scratch screen 11
Using Scratch on tablets 12
Exploring the blocks 14
Changing the backdrop 16
Creating your first program 17
Saving your project 20
Opening projects 21
Opening shared projects 22
2 Drawing with Scratch 23
Understanding coordinates 24
Changing a sprite's position 26
Using the pen 27
Drawing a house in Scratch 29
Using directions to move 31
Keeping sprites upright 32
Drawing using directions 34
Making shapes using repeat 35
Putting loops inside loops 36
Creating Rainbow Painter 37
3 Spiral Rider 39
Introducing Spiral Rider 40
Using the green flag 41
Creating variables 42
Drawing a spiral 44
Changing the backdrop 47
Adding sprites 48
Animating the crab 49
Enabling keyboard control 51
Enabling touch control 53
Making the fish move 54
Adding Game Over messages 57
4 Super Dodgeball 59
Introducing Super Dodgeball 60
Setting up the variables 61
Preparing for the game start 63
Using coordinates to move 64
Adding more images 66
Making random numbers 67
Moving the bad 68
Copying and cloning sprites 70
Adding the energy meter 72
Painting in Scratch 74
Creating the ice cream 77
Making the ice cream appear 78
Enabling the player to score 80
Tweaking the gameplay 82
5 Space Opera 83
Introducing Space Opera 84
Playing sounds 85
Adding the electric guitar 86
Using costumes 87
Adding graphic effects 88
Adding the drum 89
Adding the singer 90
Playing music in Scratch 92
Adding the synthesizer 93
Making your own tunes 94
London Bridge 96
6 Quiz Break 97
Introducing Quiz Break 98
Preparing for Quiz Break 99
Drawing the timer 101
Using broadcasts 103
Testing out broadcasts 104
Moving the clock hand 105
Adding a rising sound effect 108
Asking questions 109
Joining text to greet players 110
Preparing the quiz 111
Making the questions 112
Checking the answers 114
Reporting the scores 116
Adding the victory dance 117
7 Evil Robot 119
Introducing Evil Robot 120
Importing the images 121
Making a block for speech 122
Making the alphabet sprite 124
Writing on the Stage 125
Designing the Evil Robot 128
Creating the variables 130
Animating the robot 132
Adding the main game code 134
Creating lists 135
Using lists 136
Setting up the variables 138
Creating the game board 139
Showing the game board 140
Asking for the player's guess 141
Checking the letter 143
8 Space Swarm 147
Introducing Space Swarm 148
Creating the images 149
Adding sound effects 151
Creating the variables 152
Programming the hero 153
Enabling the player to fire 156
Moving and shooting aliens 157
Finishing touches 160
Adding the high score 162
9 Physical Computing with Scratch 163
What is physical computing? 164
Using a webcam 165
Using video direction 166
Going Batty 168
Making a clap-o-meter 170
Using a Sense HAT 171
Introducing Feeding Time 174
Creating the cat's script 175
Adding the donut scripts 176
Adding the dinosaur scripts 178
Setting up a micro:bit 180
Using a micro:bit 181
Introducing Balloon Floater 182
Drawing the cave 183
Coding the balloon 185
Coding the buttons 188
Using the Raspberry Pi GPIO 189
10 Seven shorties 191
Keepy-Uppy 192
Shop Cat 194
Penguin Patter 197
Abstract Artist 198
Maze Mania 199
Photo Safari 200
Gran Ama's Anagrams Quiz 202
11 Making and sharing projects 205
Making your own programs 206
Fixing common errors 207
Sharing your projects 209
Resources & Acknowledgements 210
Index 211