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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

Playing drums and notes


This recipe will be dual-purposed for us. We will use this as a time to explore how to get help from Scratch for things you need a little extra guidance for, while also learning how to get Scratch to play drums and sounds.

Getting ready

Let's start by looking at the help area for blocks. Notice that in the area above the stage where the green flag is there is a question mark button. You can use this button to click on things you need help with in Scratch. Start by opening the help area for the first drum block:

The tips panel will open on the right-hand side of the screen and you'll be able to navigate to the appropriate block. You'll see the following box appear with information on this block:

Not only do we get a bit of information on the block, we also get an example of how it can be used.

We'll now go into a variation on what they suggest. We'll create a beat that continues until you click on the red stop circle near the green flag on the stage.

Keep in mind that you...