Scratch 1.4; Beginner's Guide

This book provides teachers, parents, and new programmers with a guided tour of Scratch's features by creating projects that can be shared, remixed, and improved upon in your own lesson plans. Soon you will be creating games, stories, and animations by snapping blocks of "code" together. For each project, you will encounter challenges that encourage you to experiment and learn.

What you will learn from this book:
- Design user interfaces, including sequence, characters, and controls.
- Think critically and make decisions - based on need, program limitations and knowledge level.
- Debug problems in your design and code.
- Revise your projects to fix problems and add functionality.
- Collaborate with the Scratch community by remixing and sharing projects
- Communicate with peers and students about the details of your projects.
- Capture sound, light, touch, and resistance via an external PicoBoard and use it as input for your Scratch projects.

Scratch is a teaching language, so it's ideal for people who want to learn how to program or teach others how to program. Educators and parents will learn how to program using Scratch, so they can use Scratch to teach the latest learning skills to their students and children.

No previous computer programming knowledge is required. You only need to know how to perform basic tasks on a computer and this book will teach the rest. You can then use it as a platform to learn more advanced programming languages.

Parents, stuck with a child who wants to play video games all night? Make a new rule. He can only play a video game if he programs the game first.