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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

Keyboard input to a program


There are many cases where you may want to get your user to input some text or numbers into a program you are creating. For instance, you may want to get your program to get a value to change something from the user. You may also be playing a game and need input from the user to answer a question.

In this recipe, we'll explore how we can use a Sensing block that will accomplish all of this for us.

Getting ready

To prepare, let's create a new program. We'll create a program that creates a bit of user interaction and incorporates some of what we've learned already. Import a sprite of your choice, as well as a background of your choice, before we get going.

Note

We are using Tera (from Fantasy) as our sprite with bedroom2 (from Indoors) as our background. The rest of this section of the recipe is preparing for a couple of the optional things we'll do in this recipe.

How to do it...

The following are the steps for this recipe:

  1. Drag over the when green flag clicked block from...

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