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Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

You're reading from   Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition Create digital stories, games, art, and animations through six unique projects.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782160724
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Badger Michael Badger
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to Scratch 2.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. A Quick Start Guide to Scratch 3. Creating an Animated Birthday Card 4. Creating a Scratch Story Book 5. Creating a Multimedia Slideshow 6. Making an Arcade Game – Breakout (Part I) 7. Programming a Challenging Gameplay – Breakout (Part II) 8. Chatting with a Fortune Teller 9. Turning Geometric Patterns into Art Using the Pen Tool A. Connecting a PicoBoard to Scratch 1.4 B. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Summary

Whether it's the simple elegance of a square rotating 18 times in 20 degree increments or animated string art, there is a lot to be fascinated by in this chapter. What's more, you could spend hours exploring these patterns one angle at a time. While not every project has a need for drawings, adding a strategic drawing to help with level transitions or as an indicator that something happened can add a nice design touch.

The color sprite and app we created in this chapter should go into your backpack so that they are available for use in all your Scratch projects. You never know when you need to find a specific color. Likewise, the custom blocks we created for our home and shapes projects would be nice additions to your backpack.

In the next chapter, we'll explore our physical world by adding the PicoBoard, our webcam, and our computers' built-in microphone to our Scratch projects. We'll capture environmental effects that we can use to control our projects or...

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