Summary

Feel warmed up? This chapter helped us feel comfortable working with Scratch by covering some basic concepts. Each Scratch project contains sprites with costumes, scripts, blocks, and a stage with backgrounds.

In this chapter, we built a couple of sample scripts to demonstrate how we can control the sprites in a project. For example, we used motion to move the sprites, forever loops to keep the sprite moving, and broadcast messages to coordinate the actions of multiple sprites.

We finished up the chapter by sampling and remixing projects from Scratch's sample projects and from the Scratch web site. We also discovered that Scratch promotes sharing as a way to learn and encourage ideas.

Let's continue building our Scratch skills in the next chapter by working with graphics and slideshows to create a greeting card and a photo album.