About this book
Before you dive into learning how to make your own games, we need to tell you a little about the site you’ll be using—Scratch.
What is Scratch?
Scratch is a drag-and-drop programming language. Drag-and-drop means that there are blocks that are assigned pieces of code, and you stick them together like LEGOs to create a program. It’s visual, so you don’t have to type lots of brackets and semicolons and weird coding words like “bool.” Instead you snap together a brown Events block to a blue Motion block to make things happen.
Although that may sound odd right now, it will make total sense after you read chapter 1 and get familiar with the Scratch workspace.
Scratch is a friendly community with millions of users, and the biggest ...
Get Hello Scratch! now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
