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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782160724

Length 296 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Scratch

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Michael Badger

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

Appendix A. Connecting a PicoBoard to Scratch 1.4

There are various ways to connect Scratch to the physical world, including Makey Makey, LEGO^® WeDo, Raspberry Pi, and PicoBoard. Even though all of these devices require add-on hardware to interact with Scratch, they extend the Scratch experience and enable Scratch projects to connect to the physical world.
We're going to use the PicoBoard as the basis for our examples, because it tends to be one of the most popular devices used with Scratch and has a long history with the Scratch team. With slight modifications, each project can be adapted to work without a PicoBoard, and therefore, to work with Scratch 2.0.

In this appendix, I will introduce the PicoBoard and show you how to:

Animate webcam images based on detected sound
Monitor and collect environmental data and then graph the results
Explore electrical resistance

As of the publication of this book update, Scratch 2.0 does not have full support for add-on hardware such...

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Authors (1)

Badger

Badger

Michael Badgeris a writer and technical communicator who has worked in a range of technical roles, including support, automated software testing, and project management. He has authored several books for Packt Publishing, including Scratch 1.4 Beginner's Guide. He also authors a regular Scratch column for Raspberry Pi Geek Magazine, which focuses on Scratch 1.4.

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