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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

Time for action – adding a sprite to the Backpack

Right now, our project still displays the extra microphone sprite we imported. That was a necessary step so that we could combine the sprite with the backdrop; however, it's cluttering our project. And because we will want to use this same microphone throughout our chapters, we don't want to have to re-import the microphone each time. We'll declutter our project by using Scratch's Backpack. The Backpack is a feature in the online project editor for users who are signed in. If you're not signed in to the online project editor, the Backpack will not be available.

Let's work through the steps, and then we'll explain:

  1. The Backpack is collapsed (that is, closed) at the bottom-right of the Scratch interface. You can open it by clicking on the up triangle next to the word Backpack.
  2. Drag the Microphone Stand sprite into the open Backpack to create a copy.
  3. Now, you can delete the Microphone Stand sprite from...
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