Badger - Scratch 2.0 : beginners guide : learn to program while creating interactive stories, games, and multimedia projects using Scratch

Michael Badger is 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.

I'd like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for putting up with me and helping me make this revision the best it could be. My loving wife Christie and son Cameron also deserve credit for allowing me the flexibility to complete this book.

Samyak Bhuta is fascinated by art and technology and is always excited when they both meet. He is a software architect by profession with over a decade of experience. He started programming in his childhood with GWBasic and quickly moved over to QBasic. Professionally, he has worked on Java, JavaScript, Python, and PHP. He enjoys coding user interfaces as well as working on backend programming. Samyak believes in the open source philosophy and has been active in his local community. He loves to eat dal bati, an Indian dish, and has dreams to become a flautist.

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Manuel Menezes de Sequeira has been teaching programming since 1995. He started teaching programming using C, then moved to C++, and later to Java. Nowadays, in his lectures, he usually starts programming with Scratch and Snap!, and then moves on to text-based languages such as Java. Manuel teaches at the Universidade Europeia | Laureate International Universities in Lisbon, Portugal, where he also champions in CoderDojo LX, the Lisbon-based CoderDojo, where children can learn to program for free while having fun. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal, and has been involved for a few years in the translation of Scratch, SNAP!, and other projects to Portuguese.

Franklin Webber is a software professional whose professional experience comes from a testing background where he sought to automate himself out of a job. A college teaching assistant once told Frank that he was a great software developer and a terrible computer scientist, and that the software he wrote cared more for the user experience than the size of its Big O Notation. As a software developer, he became the resident generalist who was always willing to step up to learn new technologies. He now spends most of his time teaching software design to students, both young and old.

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Preface

This book demystifies Scratch programming through a variety of projects. The book assumes that you have no programming experience when you begin reading, but by the time you reach the last page, you will be ready to explore your own projects and help other people with Scratch.

The projects start with simpler concepts and get progressively more complicated in terms of programming concepts and design. You will learn how to make multiple-scene stories, think through the logic of a fast-paced arcade game called Breakout , interact with a snarky fortune teller, and more. The book's projects tend to demonstrate a programming concept first and then discuss the concept in more detail.

You will receive a balanced introduction to Scratch and universal programming concepts as you create digital stores, animations, and games. With a firm grasp on the fundamentals, you'll be ready to take on more advanced topics and projects.

What this book covers

, Welcome to Scratch 2.0 , introduces Scratch and the various types of projects covered in the book.

, A Quick Start Guide to Scratch , takes us on a tour of the online Scratch community. In this chapter, we will create our first Scratch animation while learning basic programming concepts such as loops.

, Creating an Animated Birthday Card , will guide us through how to use Scratch's built-in paint editor to draw bitmap and vector images. To create the card, we will learn important programming concepts such as project initialization, object naming, and event coordination.