Chapter 01
Meet Scratch: the stage, sprites and blocks
Get to know the stage, choose a sprite and stack your first blocks to bring it to life.
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Creative Coding with Scratch
The world's most popular kids' coding platform, straight from MIT. Snap colourful blocks together to build animations, stories and games — and pick up real programming ideas along the way: sequences, events, loops, conditions and variables.
No experience at all
What you'll learn
- Find your way around the Scratch stage, sprites and blocks
- Sequence blocks into animations and stories
- Use events, loops and conditions to make things interactive
- Keep score and track lives with variables
- Design and build your own playable game
- Remix a project and share it with the Scratch community
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
- Chapter 02
Motion, looks and sound
Mix motion, looks and sound to make your sprites dance, change costume and talk.
- Chapter 03
Events and loops: make it interactive
Use events and loops so your project responds the moment someone clicks, presses or taps.
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