The Book of Scratch Learn to Progam the Fun Way |
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Author:
| Abrams, Howard Barringer, Matt |
Series title: | No Starch Press Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-59327-280-7 |
Publication Date: | May 2011 |
Publisher: | No Starch Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $42.95 |
Book Description:
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Scratch is a graphical programming language from MIT'sMedia Lab that's designed especially for young people.Students control graphics, music, and more by snappingtogether blocks, much like LEGO bricks or pieces of apuzzle, dragging-and-dropping blocks to create programs.Scratch is used in many schools to teach kids the basicsof programming in a novel and fun way, and the Scratchwebsite alone showcases over 1,000,000 Scratch projects.The Book of Scratch is a full-colour, illustrated...
More DescriptionScratch is a graphical programming language from MIT'sMedia Lab that's designed especially for young people.Students control graphics, music, and more by snappingtogether blocks, much like LEGO bricks or pieces of apuzzle, dragging-and-dropping blocks to create programs.Scratch is used in many schools to teach kids the basicsof programming in a novel and fun way, and the Scratchwebsite alone showcases over 1,000,000 Scratch projects.The Book of Scratch is a full-colour, illustrated guideto programming with Scratch that teaches kids how to makecool projects, like joke-telling sock puppets and a carracing game. Young people can use Scratch's intuitive,graphical interface to create or tweak interactivestories, games, animations, music, and art. Each chaptertakes the reader through a game or other project thatteaches a key programming concept, like variables,message passing, and loops. As kids work through projectslike a side-scrolling octopus adventure and interactiveversions of classic games like Rock, Paper, Scissors,they learn programming by doing.