Super Scratch Programming Adventure! : Learn to Program by Making Cool Games Author: The LEAD Project | Language: English | ISBN:
1593275315 | Format: EPUB
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An Excerpt from the Foreword
"Scratch is more than a piece of software. It is part of a broader educational mission. We designed Scratch to help young people prepare for life in today's fast-changing society. As young people create Scratch projects, they are not just learning how to write computer programs. They are learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively-- essential skills for success and happiness in today's world.
As you read this book, let your imagination run wild. What will you create with Scratch?"
-Professor Mitchel Resnick, Director, MIT Scratch Team, MIT Media Lab
About the Author
The Learning through Engineering, Art, and Design (LEAD) Project is an educational initiative established to encourage the development of creative thinking through the use of technology. Created by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, the LEAD project promotes hands-on, design-based activities to foster innovation, problem solving skills, and technical literacy.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press; Second Edition edition (October 28, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593275315
- ISBN-13: 978-1593275310
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This book is a translation of an original Chinese (Hong Kong) project in conjunction with MIT, the inventors of the free Scratch programming language. It consists of nine projects which increase in difficulty and build on each other. If you go to the publisher's web site you can download the "Stage 4" project for the previous version (1.4) of Scratch. I inspected the book's version with the previous edition's version and there are only minor variations so you might want to check it out for a better idea of what this book is about.
Also at the publisher's web site is a free download of all of the projects in this book. You don't have to own or buy this book to access the projects.
It is targeted towards the younger new Scratch programmer, but will work just as well for any age person interested in picking up Scratch. The book is more an introduction by doing. Rather than getting didactic lists of how this graphical language works, the reader is taught how things work by actually doing the programs in Scratch (which is free if you didn't know that).
The nine projects are all constructed as separate chapters in the same fashion. Each "Stage" starts off with a comic about the game for that section. A "chapter focus" is given, e.g., "Learn how to create a scrolling game, program complex movements for the sprites, and make a backdrop change over time." (Stage 6 - Desert Rally Race).
The book gives very clear directions for registering and accessing the quite large, and sometimes confusing, Scratch community. That's one of the things that makes an item like this nice in that you have a coherent introduction to the language in a small package.
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