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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

Introduction


Creating your own projects is a lot of fun in Scratch. However, a lot of other people have had some great ideas for projects too! This chapter is all about taking something someone else has created and customizing it—we'll call that remixing. One important advantage of remixing projects made by others is to be able to also share what we do with others—that is the entire point of remixing!

We're going to go through a few recipes in this chapter that will remix work we've seen before. We'll begin with a simple recipe about learning how to import code from one project to another. Then, we'll create something new using some blocks we haven't come across yet. Next, we'll remix that project to do something else.

After this chapter, you'll be remixing projects (that you download) in no time! If you want to find out more about downloading projects, check out Appendix, Collaboration.