Introduction
This book uses Scratch to invite exploration with math. It presents concepts such as number representations, divisibility, prime numbers, and cryptography that are useful and relevant in daily life and that are fun to code. It’s about how to ask interesting mathematical questions and how to program a computer to answer them.
The book is also about finding the best way to solve a problem. You’ll see how a little bit of planning, combined with the right mathematical or coding tricks, can make complex calculations doable. These are the “hacks” in the book’s title; you’ll learn programming strategies for coaxing Scratch into giving you ...
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