The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!
Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book!

Understanding computer science is becoming a necessity in the modern age. As our world shifts towards becoming increasingly more technical and automated, the ability to code and understand computers has become one of the most valuable skills any child can have on the road to a successful life. More and more schools are recognizing this importance and have started to implement computer science and coding as core elements in their curriculums, right alongside math and history.

The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book helps children get a head start on this new essential skill, with Scratch coding—a language designed by MIT specifically to help a younger audience learn to code. In no time, children will learn basic coding concepts, build fun games, and get a competitive edge on their classmates. This book encourages children to think analytically and problem-solve, while helping them develop an essential skill that will last them a lifetime.
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The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!
Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book!

Understanding computer science is becoming a necessity in the modern age. As our world shifts towards becoming increasingly more technical and automated, the ability to code and understand computers has become one of the most valuable skills any child can have on the road to a successful life. More and more schools are recognizing this importance and have started to implement computer science and coding as core elements in their curriculums, right alongside math and history.

The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book helps children get a head start on this new essential skill, with Scratch coding—a language designed by MIT specifically to help a younger audience learn to code. In no time, children will learn basic coding concepts, build fun games, and get a competitive edge on their classmates. This book encourages children to think analytically and problem-solve, while helping them develop an essential skill that will last them a lifetime.
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The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!

The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!

by Jason Rukman
The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!

The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!

by Jason Rukman

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Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book!

Understanding computer science is becoming a necessity in the modern age. As our world shifts towards becoming increasingly more technical and automated, the ability to code and understand computers has become one of the most valuable skills any child can have on the road to a successful life. More and more schools are recognizing this importance and have started to implement computer science and coding as core elements in their curriculums, right alongside math and history.

The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book helps children get a head start on this new essential skill, with Scratch coding—a language designed by MIT specifically to help a younger audience learn to code. In no time, children will learn basic coding concepts, build fun games, and get a competitive edge on their classmates. This book encourages children to think analytically and problem-solve, while helping them develop an essential skill that will last them a lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781507207970
Publisher: Adams Media
Publication date: 12/04/2018
Series: Everything Kids' Series
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jason Rukman is the CEO and cofounder of Ucodemy, a Scratch education dashboard for elementary and middle-grade teachers. Ucodemy provides unique instructional videos and courses to be used as part of a computer science curriculum. He is responsible for the development and marketing of iTCH, a hybrid version of the Scratch program with ready-to-go coding lessons within the Scratch interface. Through Ucodemy and iTCH, Jason has provided lessons to more than 150,000 students.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

Begin Here

1 The Basics of Scratch 11

Scratch's Beginnings 13

The Different Parts of Scratch 14

Let's Get Started! 28

Get a Move On

2 Motion 29

Setting Up Your Sprites 31

Which Way Did it Go? 32

Movin' and Groovin' 33

Moving with Direction 36

Activity-Visiting Friends 41

Looking Good

3 Looks and Animation 47

Costumes 49

Backdrops 51

Size 52

Show and Hide 52

Say and Think 53

Create Some New Looks 55

Layers 59

Activity-Tell A Story! 60

Sounds Good to Me

4 Sounds 65

Sound Workspace 67

The Sound Blocks 71

Playing Sounds-The Fun Part 71

Keep It Down! 73

Activity-Party Tunes 76

Events Change the World

5 Events 81

Understanding Events 83

Outside Events 84

Inside Events 86

Parallel Events 91

Activity Dance Party! 92

Operators Connect Us All

6 Operators 99

What Is an Operator Anyway? 101

Math Operators 101

Conditional Operators 107

Word Tricks 110

Activity-Math Jeopardy! 112

Control the Flow

7 Control 115

Conditional Blocks 117

Loops 121

A Loop and a Conditional Combined 123

Stopping Blocks 124

Cloning 126

Activity-Forest SIM 131

Sensing If Things Change

8 Sensing 135

What Are Sensors? 137

Catch the Mouse! 138

The Keyboard 140

Collision Detection 143

Distances 149

Dates and Time 150

Asking Questions 152

Other Sensors 154

Activity-Trobo Maze 156

Very Valuable Variables

9 Variables 163

Variables 165

Lists 171

Activity Number Guessing 180

Mine, All Mine!

10 My Blocks 183

Give Me Infinite Blocks! 185

Run Without Screen Refresh 190

Recognizing When You Need Custom Blocks 192

Activity-Jump The Blocks 193

Extending the Fun

11 Extensions 201

Music 203

Pen 208

Google Translate 214

Video Motion 216

Activity-Balloon Pop 219

The Perfect Image

12 Image Editor/Importing 225

The Image Editor Area 227

I Can See Right Through You! 237

Activity-Meteor Shower 238

Index 249

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