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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

Downloading projects


If you liked Chapter 9, Project Remixing, you're probably going to want to download a lot of projects to work with! This is a fun way to get new projects to work on.

Getting ready

Create your account on the Scratch website and be sure that you are logged in. Then head to a project page for a project that you're interested in downloading.

How to do it...

Follow these steps and you'll be ready to remix in no time:

  1. On the project page there will be a small box that allows you to See inside.

  2. You'll see the project as if it were your own. You can change the project and remix it on the downloadable version of Scratch (to be released Summer 2013) or continue with these steps.

    Tip

    Note that if you want to remix a project, you might just want to hit the remix button that has been added to Scratch 2.0. This will save the project as your own, allowing you to add your own touches to it.

  3. Click on File and choose Download to your computer.

Note

Note that you don't need to download the project unless you want to work directly on your computer. You can just work on the project in your browser as well. Also, note that if you have Scratch 1.4 installed, anything created in Scratch 2.0 will not open. In other words, Scratch files downloaded will be .sb2 files instead of .sb files. Keep in mind that .sb2 files will not open in Scratch 1.4.

You are now set to use Scratch to collaborate and share with the entire Scratch community (and the world)!