Scratch cookbook / Brandon Milonovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milonovich, Brandon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scratch (Electronic resource).

Computer animation.

Computer graphics.

Visual programming languages (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Biography/History:

Milonovich Brandon: Brandon Milonovich completed his Master's degree in Teaching and Curriculum with emphasis in Mathematics Education in December 2012 at Syracuse University in central New York. Prior to attending Syracuse, Brandon earned his Bachelor's degree in Adolescent Mathematics Education at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Brandon grew up in upstate New York with an interest in mathematics and computer science at a young age. Brandon has experience of teaching mathematical concepts to students using Scratch in third through fifth grade, as well as experience of teaching mathematics at the middle school, high school, and university level. It was during Brandon's time at Saint Rose that he began his work with Scratch through an internship program with Computer Science professor Helen Albanese. In coordination with three Albany City School District teachers, Brandon developed an after-school program centered on programming in Scratch for at-risk youth. The program expanded the following year to include a broader age range of students. Now, Brandon works towards making learning Scratch more accessible within the classroom itself, both with traditional methods and flipped classroom-blended learning style concepts, to build the mathematical foundation students need to be successful 21st century learners. Brandon believes in sharing of information as broadly as possible, and so has presented with his colleagues at numerous conferences and workshops on Scratch, and hopes to continue to do so. For more information on Brandon, or to contact him, visit http: //www. bmilo. com.

Summary:

A practical approach with hands-on recipes to learn more about Scratch and its features.Scratch Cookbook is great for people who are still relatively new to programming but wish to learn more. It assumes you know the basics of computer operation. The methods of using Scratch are worked through quickly with a focus on more advanced topics, though readers can move at their own pace to learn all the techniques they need.

Contents:

Intro

Scratch Cookbook

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

More information

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Scratch

Introduction

Starting up Scratch

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Deleting the default sprite

There's more…

Adding a custom sprite

Adding a pre-made sprite

Changing the stage background

The Hello World project

Adding some motion

Special sprite settings

Pointing towards the mouse

Duplicating code

2. Storytelling

Adding words to a sprite

How to do it...

How it works...

Adjusting the timing

There's more...

Sprites interacting with other sprites

Basic broadcasting and receiving

The broadcast block

The receive block

More about the code

Triggering an event with a click

Changing the background

Resetting parts of a program

See also.

Other fun graphic effects

Fisheye

Whirl

Pixelate

Mosaic

Brightness

Ghost

3. Adding Animation

Changing sprite costumes

Making it dance

Checking the costume number

Switching to a particular costume

Switching backgrounds in a story

Adding graphic effects to backgrounds

A finished message

Adding other effects

Animating the button

Keyboard input to a program

Using better defined variables

Getting the mouse position

4. Basic Gaming

Creating a moving object

The simple way

Adding another ball

Object interaction with a background

User interaction with a game

Using mouse control

Keeping score

Objects disappearing

Building a maze

Using the timer

How it works.

See also

5. Spicing up Games

Tracking the best score or time

Keeping a high score list

Adding more levels

6. Bringing in Sound

Playing sounds

Importing a new sound

Recording a sound

Playing drums and notes

Adjusting volume

Fading volume out

Changing the tempo

Interactive note playing

7. Integrating PicoBoards

Setting up the sensor board

Getting values from the sensor board

Working with the slider

Integrating the light sensor

Integrating the sound sensor

Measuring resistance

The sensor board button

Checking other connections

There's more….

8. Programming to Calculate

Generating Fibonacci numbers

Sieve of Eratosthenes

Creating a password generator

Other Scratch calculations

9. Project Remixing

Importing parts of other projects

Drawing with the pen

Remixing the pen project

A. Collaboration

The online Scratch community

Creating an account

Sharing projects

Sharing Scratch 1.4 projects

Downloading projects

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781849518437

1849518432

OCLC:

857066400