eBook - ePub

Hello Scratch!

Name: Hello Scratch!
ISBN: 9781638354246

Learn to program by making arcade games

Melissa Ford,

384 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Hello Scratch!

Learn to program by making arcade games

Melissa Ford,

About this book

Summary Hello, Scratch! is a how-to book that helps parents and kids work together to learn programming skills by creating new versions of old retro-style arcade games with Scratch.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Can 8-year-olds write computer programs? You bet they can! In Scratch, young coders use colorful blocks and a rich graphical environment to create programs. They can easily explore ideas like input and output, looping, branching, and conditionals. Scratch is a kid-friendly language created by MIT that is a safe and fun way to begin thinking like a programmer, without the complexity of a traditional programming language. About the Book Hello Scratch! guides young readers through five exciting games to help them take their first steps in programming. They'll experiment with key ideas about how a computer program works and enjoy the satisfaction of immediate success. These carefully designed projects give readers plenty of room to explore by imagining, tinkering, and personalizing as they learn. What's Inside

Learn by experimentation
Learn to think like a programmer
Build five exciting, retro-style games
Visualize the organization of a program

About the Readers Written for kids 8-14. Perfect for independent learning or working with a parent or teacher. About the Authors Kids know how kids learn. Sadie and Gabriel Ford, 12-year-old twins and a formidable art and coding team, wrote this book with editing help from their mother, author Melissa Ford! Table of Contents

PART 1 - SETTING UP THE ARCADE

Getting to know your way around Scratch
Becoming familiar with the Art Editor
Meeting Scratch's key blocks through important coding concepts

PART 2 - TURNING ON THE MACHINES

Designing a two-player ball-and-paddle game
Using conditionals to build a two-player ball-and-paddle game

PART 3 - CODING AND PLAYING GAMES

Designing a fixed shooter
Using conditionals to build your fixed shooter
Designing a one-player ball-and-paddle game
Using variables to build your one-player ball-and-paddle game
Designing a simple platformer
Using X and Y coordinates to make a simple platformer
Making a single-screen platformer
Using arrays and simulating gravity in a single-screen platformer
Becoming a game maker

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