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Scratch Cookbook

You're reading from   Scratch Cookbook If want to get your programming know-how off the starting blocks in a fun, involving way, then this guide to Scratch is perfect. In no time you'll be building your own interactive programs that include animations and sound.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849518420
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brandon Milonovich Brandon Milonovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Scratch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Scratch FREE CHAPTER 2. Storytelling 3. Adding Animation 4. Basic Gaming 5. Spicing up Games 6. Bringing in Sound 7. Integrating PicoBoards 8. Programming to Calculate 9. Project Remixing Collaboration Index

Importing a new sound


Scratch comes with a variety of sounds built-in that we can use beyond the default meow sound. Here we will see how to access them and get them into our programs to be played back at various points.

Getting ready

Refer to the previous recipe to have the ability to play a sound in your program. You may also apply this recipe to another program you have already added sound to using your knowledge from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Let's get started:

  1. You'll notice on the top of the script area there is a third tab we have not used yet called Sounds. Click on this tab. You'll see the following screenshot:

  2. Click on the Import button that looks like a speaker. The following dialog box will appear:

  3. Choose a category of sounds from the list of categories, this will open up a variety of choices of sounds to use.

  4. We'll import from the Music Loops category. Once you open a folder, you can click on the sound once to hear it previewed for you. We'll import cave into our program...

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