Book Description
In Full Color!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to make your own animations, games, simulations, and interactive stories with MIT Media Lab’s amazingly easy Scratch 2.0! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll walk through everything from joining the global Scratch community to adding audio/video and sensing the outside environment. You’ll learn to write reliable, efficient code and take advantage of millions of Scratch programs shared online. Every hands-on lesson builds upon what you’ve already learned, fully preparing you to create inspired projects of your own!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Scratch 2.0 programming tasks.
Quizzes at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
Challenges give you the opportunity to extend upon what you’ve learned in each chapter and flex your new-found programming skills.
Notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Learn how to…
Create your first project
Master basic features including the Stage, Backdrops, Sprites, and Costumes
Make things happen with Motion blocks
Add sophisticated logic without complicated coding
Use audio and video you capture with a webcam or microphone
Include your own drawings in your projects
Sense what your game’s players are doing and interact with them
Write programs that respond to outside changes such as temperature and touch
Test your projects to find and fix problems
Document and publish projects so others can help you improve them
“Remix” projects with online Scratch code and content
Create games with multiple game screens and button controls
Master skills you can use with even the most powerful programming languages
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors [This content is currently in development.]
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Hour 1. What is Scratch?
- Hour 2. Creating Your First Project
- Hour 3. Working with Costumes and the Stage
- Hour 4. Using Motion Blocks
- Hour 5. Using Looks Blocks
- Hour 6. Using Sound Blocks
- Hour 7. Working with Pen Blocks
- Hour 8. Using Event Blocks
- Hour 9. Using Control Blocks [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 10. Using Operators Blocks [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 11. Using Sensing Blocks [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 12. Using Data Blocks [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 13. Using Cloud Data [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 14. Adding Multimedia to Your Project [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 15. Creating Your Own Blocks [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 16. Documenting Your Project
- Hour 17. Publishing Your Project
- Hour 18. Using the Scratch Offline Editor
- Hour 19. Troubleshooting Your Project [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 20. Remixing a Project
- Hour 21. Creating Your Own Sprites and Backdrops [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 22. Implementing Buttons and Multiple Screens [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 23. Connecting Scratch to the Physical World [This content is currently in development.]
- Hour 24. Capstone Project. Arcade Game [This content is currently in development.]