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Scratch 1.4: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Scratch 1.4: Beginner's Guide Learn to program while creating interactive stories, games, and multimedia projects using Scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196767
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Scratch 1.4 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Welcome to Scratch! FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Start Scratching 4. Graphics and Slideshows 5. Storytelling 6. Arcade Games 7. Games of Fortune 8. Math and Finance 9. Share! 10. Real-world stimuli Scratch Resources
Index

Barnyard humor


Let's spin some barnyard humor that's fit for users of all ages. Got a good joke or two? Feel free to substitute them for my example.

Table of contents

Our first step is to create a table of contents that users can use to navigate the jokes in our book.

Time for action – create TOC

To begin with, our book will have a chapter for a dog and a horse. We need to create clickable sprites to load into each chapter when we click on the entry in the table of contents.

  1. Let's create a new sprite by clicking on the paint new sprite button in Scratch.

  2. We need to add a button from Scratch's image library. From the Paint Editor, click the Import button to display the Import Image dialog box.

  3. Navigate to Costume | Things and select button. Click OK to add it to the Paint Editor's canvas.

  4. Use the Text tool to type Dog in any font you want.

  5. Resize the text and position the word Dog so that it fits inside the button. Don't make the button bigger or else you will compromise its quality.

  6. Click OK to save...

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