Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide Second Edition -- Table of Contents -- Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide Second Edition -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - heading -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Welcome to Scratch 2.0 -- About Scratch -- Encouraging everyone to think programmatically -- Sample Scratch uses -- Computational thinking -- Finding a project for you -- Making animations -- Telling stories -- Building games -- Programming games of chance -- Creating art projects -- Sensing the real world -- Programming concepts -- Using Scratch 2.0 -- Looking inside a Scratch project -- The stage area -- The sprites pane -- The scripts area -- The built-in image editor -- Using Scratch 2.0 offline -- Encountering Scratch 1.4 -- Tinkering encouraged -- Summary -- 2. A Quick Start Guide to Scratch -- Joining the Scratch community -- Time for action - creating an account on the Scratch website -- What just happened? -- Time for action - understanding the key features of your account -- What just happened? -- Abiding by the terms of use -- Creating projects under Creative Commons licenses -- Finding free media online -- Taking our first steps in Scratch -- Time for action - moving the cat across the stage -- What just happened? -- Using events to trigger an action -- Have a go hero - testing the move block -- Time for action - animating a walking motion with the cat -- What just happened?.

Understanding the basics of a Scratch Project -- Saving early, often, and automatically -- Time for action - saving our work -- What just happened? -- Undoing a deletion -- Introducing forever loops -- Time for action - setting the cat in motion, forever -- What just happened? -- Controlling a sprite with loops -- Time for action - flipping the cat right-side up -- What just happened? -- Clicking on a block runs the command -- Have a go hero - exploring sprite rotation -- Adding sprites to the project -- Time for action - adding a second sprite and script -- What just happened? -- Reviewing a video-sensing project -- Time for action - reviewing pop the balloon - video starter -- What just happened? -- Sensing video -- Have a go hero - remixing ideas with our starter project -- Pop quiz - getting started with Scratch -- Summary -- 3. Creating an Animated Birthday Card -- Introducing the paint editor -- Time for action - painting a happy birthday sprite -- What just happened? -- Changing the size of a bitmap image -- Choosing bitmap or vector images -- Time for action - drawing a vector image -- What just happened? -- Changing the size of the vector image -- Reviewing the image editing tools -- Erasing in the vector mode -- Filling the stage with color -- Time for action - using the fill with color tool to paint the stage -- What just happened? -- Adding gradients -- Time for action - applying a gradient -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding more sprites to address the card -- What just happened? -- Initializing a sprite's starting values -- Time for action - hiding all sprites when the flag is clicked -- What just happened? -- Time for action - displaying happy birthday -- What just happened? -- Specifying memorable names and comments -- Time for action - renaming sprites -- What just happened? -- Inserting comments into our code.

Time for action - adding comments to a script -- What just happened? -- Transforming sprites with graphical effects -- Time for action - transforming sprites -- What just happened? -- Graphical transformations -- Comparing the repeat and forever blocks -- Time for action - turning m in a circle -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - cleaning up the animations -- Time for action - making a sprite fade in with the ghost effect -- What just happened? -- Two ways to control timing -- Have a go hero - animating the butterfly -- Pop quiz - reviewing the chapter -- Summary -- 4. Creating a Scratch Story Book -- Designing the outline of a barnyard joke book -- Time for action - designing a clickable table of contents -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding pages to the book -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding a sprite to the Backpack -- What just happened? -- Using the Backpack to store sprites and scripts -- Building a joke with say blocks and sounds -- Time for action - making a horse talk with the say block -- What just happened? -- Time for action - synchronizing and animating the horse -- What just happened? -- Time for action - importing a horse sound -- What just happened? -- Playing supported sound formats -- Positioning a sprite by its coordinates -- Time for action - moving the dog based on x and y coordinates -- What just happened? -- Locating sprites with x and y coordinates -- Creating a new costume -- Time for action - duplicating, flipping, and switching a sprite's costume -- What just happened? -- Comparing costumes to sprites -- Composing custom sound effects -- Time for action - creating drum sound effects -- What just happened? -- Creating sound effects and music -- Have a go hero - writing a joke sequence for the dog -- Time for action - integrating the dog's joke sequence -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - adding context to the dog's scene -- Navigating the story and coordinating scenes -- Time for action - hiding the table of contents -- What just happened? -- Time for action - displaying the dog scene -- What just happened? -- Coordinating scenes by backdrop name -- Time for action - navigating back to the table of contents -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - finishing the sequence and initializing the project -- Pop quiz - checking chapter concepts -- Summary -- 5. Creating a Multimedia Slideshow -- Importing photos as backdrops -- Time for action - importing photos from files -- What just happened? -- Working with images -- Resizing images -- Using caution while resizing images -- Have a go hero - importing an animated GIF or vector graphic -- Adding slideshow controls to display images -- Time for action - flipping through the photos -- What just happened? -- Related backdrop blocks -- Playing and recording sounds -- Time for action - adding a sound from Scratch's library -- What just happened? -- Time for action - recording sounds in the sound editor -- What just happened? -- Understanding sound related blocks -- Editing sounds -- Time for action - editing a recorded sound -- What just happened? -- Time for action - appending a sound -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding sound effects to recordings -- What just happened? -- Reviewing available sound effects -- Have a go hero - narrating additional images -- Using x and y coordinates to find the position of the mouse's pointer -- Time for action - using mouse location to hide arrows -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - redefining the hot zone -- Time for action - providing user instructions -- What just happened? -- Displaying a project in presentation mode -- Time for action - presenting a fullscreen slideshow -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - personalizing the slideshow with graphic effects -- Pop quiz - reviewing the chapter's concepts -- Summary -- 6. Making an Arcade Game - Breakout (Part I) -- Learning about the Breakout game -- Discovering Pong -- Time for action - importing and playing the Pong starter project -- What just happened? -- Remixing a legacy Scratch project -- Moving a sprite with the mouse or arrows -- Using reporter blocks to set values -- Customizing the gameplay of the Pong project -- Time for action - adding the left and right arrow controls -- What just happened? -- Evaluating the y position of the ball to end the game -- Time for action - determining if the ball is below the paddle -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adjusting the center of a sprite costume -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using the costume center in projects -- Cloning to create identical sprites -- Time for action - drawing bricks -- What just happened? -- Time for action - cloning bricks -- What just happened? -- Dealing with the cloned sprite -- Time for action - breaking bricks when I start as a clone -- What just happened? -- Cloning explained -- Rapid fire shooting with cloning -- Cloning related blocks -- Ricocheting with the point in direction block -- Time for action - changing a sprite's direction -- What just happened? -- Figuring out the direction -- Time for action - setting the starting position and the direction -- What just happened? -- Time for action - ricocheting off bricks -- What just happened? -- Conditional statements -- Conditional statements in real life -- Defining a variable to keep score -- Time for action - adding a score variable -- What just happened? -- Setting variables For all sprites -- Setting variables For this sprite only -- Have a go hero - creating a graphical effect for the bricks -- Pop quiz - reviewing the chapter.

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