Learning Scratch

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Scratch Courses Programming Courses Game Development Courses Animation Courses Sound Design Courses Sprites Courses Visual Programming Courses

Course Description

Overview

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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