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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 – drawing rows of bricks with custom blocks

The script to create the two rows of yellow bricks is working well; however, we're about to duplicate a lot of code and potentially have a really large and a difficult-to-manage script.

Let's break the duplicate code into a procedure, also known as a custom block in Scratch 2.0, as described in the following steps:

  1. From the Scripts tab of the brick, click on the More Blocks palette and click on the Make a Block button.
  2. In the New Block dialog that opens, type in lay bricks in the text field of the purple block and then click on OK to create the block.
  3. After you create the block, Scratch places a block with the name lay bricks in the More Blocks palette, and in the scripts area, you now have a block titled define lay bricks.
  4. If you look closely at the code to create the bricks, you'll note that everything in the repeat blocks is an exact duplicate. Break the script apart and attach one of the repeat blocks to define...
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