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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


You might have some interest in creating programs that have sound in them. This is the chapter where we will finally learn how to do that. Scratch has many built-in blocks that allow us to do this. Notice in the block palette there is an entire category dedicated to Sound.

Following is a screenshot of what you should see if you examine this category of blocks:

The recipes in this chapter will explore just a few ways that you can integrate these blocks. Some recipes will focus on just a short technique, while others will integrate a technique into a recipe you've seen before in other chapters. Sounds can be integrated in very basic ways, such as just adding a quick sound bite, or very complex ways by adjusting things such as notes played, tempo, and so on.

Let's get started with our first recipe!