Teach Yourself Animation Coding in Scratch 3: Programming for Kids and Beginners

by Achal .

The “scratch” is a block-based programming language developed by MIT Media Lab, it is fun to do programming with Scratch, it makes programming a playground for children. This book is designed You will learn by reading this book. This book is designed so that you can learn programming by creating games, playground and applications with drag and drop blocks. The programming language is for children aged 8 to 16, however, anyone can join scratch programming for entertainment and learning. Scratch allows users to make small animations, stories, play music and develop small games and softwares. In the carefully designed book, we try to train your intuitions, to promote thinking logically and rationally to achieve programming skills through games. Complexities are broken into smaller tasks and this help hiding complexities and help quickly master the basics. After this book, you'll learn basics of programming languages and would become capable enough to make sense of any piece of code. The contents of the book are designed to be fun and entertaining! You will learn to create programming, animations, software, playground and games. The games in the book are handpicked to enhance learning of computer science. Following topics are covered in this
Contents
Note to Parents
Contents
Chapter -1: The scratch platform
The Scratch Platform
The Sprites
The Background
The code blocks
The code window
Start/Stop Button
Other parts of the scratch platform
Assignment
The Animated Birthday Card
Setting the stage for animation
The Costumes of Sprites
Changing Costumes
The Loops
The Wait code block
Say and Stop All Code Block
Adding Sound/Music to the Animation
Chapter 3: Practice loop and movements
Exploring pen extension
Drawing using Pen
Re-set sprite after each run
Drawing a square on screen
Drawing square with a loop
Drawing pattern from a square
Drawing letter “A” on screen
Star Pattern
Drawing Circle
Pattern created from a Circle
Assignment
Chapter 4: Giving motion to Sprites
Goto Random Position
Glide
Move to x and y
Dancing Girl project
Chapter 5: Pong Game (Ball Bouncing)
Bouncing Ball from edge
Moving the paddle
Bouncing Ball from the paddle
Understanding Direction
Game end coding
End Game Screen
Broadcast Message
Adding Score
The Entire Code
Simple Baseball Game
Sprites Required
Bowling
Batsman’s action
Shot on ball
Score Keeping
The Entire Code
Balloon Burst Game
Required of Sprites
Transparent image
Searching transparent image on google images
Adding an image as Costume
Moving balloon randomly on the screen
POP the Balloon
Solving issues
The Entire Code
Balloon Bursting with Finger
Video Sensing
The Code
Rocket Shooting Game (Medium Toughness)
Step 1: Make wand moving
Step 2: Shooting the lightning
Step 3: Moving the rocket
Step 4: A Blast on being hit
Step 5: Counting Score
Step 6: Counting Life
Step 7: Difficulty Increase Speed
Step 8: Difficulty Rocket movement to avoid the aim
The complete code
Chapter 10: Text to speech
Exploring code blocks for text to speech
Implementation of text to speech
Solutions to Assignments

98 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2021