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Scratch Cookbook

By : Brandon Milonovich
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Scratch Cookbook

By: Brandon Milonovich

Overview of this book

Scratch 2.0 is an easy to use programming language that allows you to animate stories and create interactive games. Scratch also gives you the capability of using programming to calculate complicated calculations for you. Scratch Cookbook will lead you through easy-to-follow recipes that give you everything you need to become a more advanced programmer. Scratch Cookbook will take you through the essential features of Scratch. You'll then work through simple recipes to gain an understanding of the more advanced features of Scratch. You will learn how to create animations using Scratch. Sensory board integration (getting input from the outside environment) will also be covered, along with using Scratch to solve complicated and tedious calculations for you. You'll also learn how to work through the exciting process of project remixing where you build on the work of others. Scratch Cookbook will give you everything you need to get started with building your own programs in Scratch that involve sounds, animations, and user interaction.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Scratch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sharing Scratch 1.4 projects


If you've been working with Scratch for a while, you were probably using Scratch 1.4. The great news is that with Scratch 2.0 you can upload projects from the older version of Scratch to the newer version of Scratch. This is a nice and easy process.

Getting ready

Create your account on the Scratch website and be sure you are logged in. Open up Scratch.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Click on the File menu.

  2. Select the option Upload from your computer.

  3. Navigate through the folders on your computer to find the file you want to upload to the Scratch community.

  4. Your file will upload into Scratch 2.0 and you can save it there as any other Scratch 2.0 file.

Note

Note that once you upload a file to Scratch 2.0 from Scratch 1.4, you can't go in the other direction and bring it back to Scratch 1.4. This is pretty common with most software and programming.