The anticipation of learning a new programming language can sometimes leave us frozen on the starting line, not knowing what to expect or where to start. Together, we'll take our first steps into programming with Scratch, and block-by-block, we'll create our first animation. Our work in this chapter will focus on getting ourselves comfortable with some fundamental concepts before we create projects in the rest of the book.
In this chapter, we will be introduced to Scratch programming. We will:
Join and tour the online Scratch community
Create a project to take our first steps in Scratch
Introduce loops using forever and repeat blocks
Add and animate multiple sprites in a project
Remix a video-sensing project