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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 – heading

  1. Action 1
  2. Action 2
  3. Action 3

Instructions often need some extra explanation so that they make sense, so they are followed with:

What just happened?

This heading explains the working of tasks or instructions that you have just completed.

You will also find some other learning aids in the book, including:

Pop quiz – heading

These are short multiple-choice questions intended to help you test your own understanding.

Have a go hero – heading

These practical challenges give you ideas for experimenting with what you have learned.

You will also find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Conditional statements are used to check whether a statement is true or false. For example, if 4 > 0 is a conditional statement."

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "The top of the page contains the Create, Explore, and Discuss links."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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