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LinkedIn Learning

Learning Scratch

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Teach yourself or your students programming with Scratch, the simple, web-based visual programming language.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Get Started with Scratch
  • What is Scratch?
  • Create a Scratch account
  • Your first project
  • Backdrops
  • Sprites
  • Paint in Vector mode
  • Paint in Bitmap mode
  • Backpack
  • Tutorial projects
2. Scripts
  • Motion
  • Looks
  • Events
  • Pen
  • Control
  • Sensing
  • Operators
  • Variables
  • Comments and Cleanup
3. Costumes
  • Animate costumes
  • Draw custom vector costumes
  • Draw custom bitmap costumes
4. Sounds
  • Load a sound
  • Edit sounds waves
  • Make a looping beat
  • Instruments
5. Build a Game
  • View the finished game
  • Set up the layout
  • Make a character walk
  • Spawn clones
  • Randomness
  • Detect collisions
  • Create pickup items
  • Display a score
  • Share your creation
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Todd Perkins

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