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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


In the previous chapter, you learned about a lot of different basic things that we can do with Scratch. You learned specifically about the Scratch interface and created your first project, incorporating control and movement blocks. This chapter will focus on how you can use Scratch to tell a story.

We'll primarily be interested in learning more about the Looks blocks, Control blocks, and Events blocks. Take a look at each recipe to get a good understanding of these types of blocks. While these recipes focus on storytelling, we'll use a lot of these concepts in later chapters as well, for other types of projects we make.