Chapter 9
Introducing Programming with Scratch
IN THIS CHAPTER
Starting Scratch
Understanding the Scratch screen layout
Making your sprite move
Creating scripts
Changing your sprite’s appearance
Adding sounds
Adding extensions
The Raspberry Pi was created partly to inspire the next generation of programmers, and Scratch is the perfect place to start. With it, you can make your own cartoons and games and discover some of the concepts that professional programmers use every day.
Scratch is designed to be approachable for people of all ages. The visual interface makes it easy to see what you can do at any time, without having to remember any strange codes, and you can rapidly achieve great results. Scratch comes with a library of images and sounds, so it takes only a few minutes to write ...
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