In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to make your own animations, games, simulations, and interactive stories with MIT Media Lab?s amazingly easy Scratch 2.0! Using this book?s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you?ll walk through everything from joining the global Scratch community to adding audio/video and sensing the outside environment. You?ll learn to write reliable, efficient code and take advantage of millions of Scratch programs shared online. Every hands-on lesson builds upon what you?ve already learned, fully preparing you to create inspired projects of your own! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Scratch 2.0 programming tasks. Quizzes at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. Challenges give you the opportunity to extend upon what you?ve learned in each chapter and flex your new-found programming skills. Notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
