Scratch, the colorful drag-and-drop programming language, is used by millions of first-time learners, and in this book, you'll learn to program by making cool games. Get ready to destroy asteroids, shoot hoops, and slice and dice fruit!

A simple and comprehensive introduction to programming with Scratch, with fun and accessible projects that combine coding, video game design, and art projects that build children's confidence in coding, math, and STEM.

Help you get started and guide you step-by-step through the process of creating all sorts of projects: games, animations, quizzes, electronics circuits, and more. You'll find that Scratch isn’t just a great way to learn to code, but lots of fun too!

You'll learn how to code using Scratch, the block-based programming language. You'll find instructions to build cool games, animations, and interactive stories. Your friendly robot guide will aid you step-by-step through each project.

Read it, follow the projects and get to grips with the fundamentals of programming using Scratch, and you and they can learn to code. The projects in this book are fun, so that kids and adults will enjoy making them, and playing them once they are done.

This book will familiarize you with the Scratch visual programming environment. The book is structured as a collection of tasks. Concepts are introduced in order to solve a specific task such as animating dancing images or building a game.

A collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for an introductory creative computing experience using the Scratch programming language. Designed to support familiarity and increasing fluency with computational creativity and computational thinking.