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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 – hiding all sprites when the flag is clicked


We're going to animate our card, which means we're going to be changing the default appearances of the sprites in our card. Therefore, we need to think about the starting values of our sprites. As the first step in our animation, we'll hide all sprites so that we start with a blank screen. Then, we can introduce and animate each sprite in turn as shown in the following steps:

  1. Select the Happy Birthday sprite to display its script area.

  2. We'll use the click on the green flag as an event to trigger our script. From the Events palette, drag the when flag clicked block to the scripts area.

  3. From the Looks palette, snap the hide block to when flag clicked.

  4. Hide each of the letters that spell mom using the same script. Try the following shortcut:

    1. Right-click on the Happy Birthday script and select duplicate. The script attaches to your mouse cursor.

    2. Drag the script to one of the other sprites in the sprite list and click on it. The script copies...

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