Scratch Video
Beginner
40 mins
Teacher/Student led
110 points
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Scratch Tutorial

Embark on an exciting journey into the world of coding with Scratch. This step-by-step tutorial will guide you through creating your own project, from understanding what Scratch is, to adding sprites and backdrops, making sprites move, and experimenting with different code blocks. Don't worry about making mistakes - it's all part of the learning process!
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    1 - What is Scratch?

    Scratch is a coding website that we can use to create our own games, animations and projects.

    Watch this short minute video to get a quick introduction to it.

    2 - Open the Scratch website

    Now let's take a look at the Scratch website!

    Open the Scratch website by clicking on the link below. Once it opens up click on the Create link at the top of the page. This will open up the project editor. Once you've done that come back to this tab and move onto the next step.

    scratch.mit.edu


    3 - Remove the Default Sprite

    Every new Scratch project starts with a default sprite, which is a cat. For our project, we want to start with a blank slate, so we will remove this cat sprite.

    To do this, look below the stage area where you see a small thumbnail of the cat sprite. In the corner of this thumbnail, there's a small 'x'. Click on this 'x' to remove the cat sprite from your project.

    Don't worry about losing the cat sprite. If you ever want it back, you can always find it in the sprite library!


    4 - Add a sprite to your project

    Scratch comes with a sprite library that's packed full of different characters.

    Open up the sprite library and add the Bat sprite to your project.

    You'll see that it gets added into the stage area and we can now give it some code!


    5 - Make the sprite move

    Now let's try making the sprite move. Add the following code blocks to the code area by dragging and dropping them. The colour of the blocks let's you know which "block category" to open.

    when green flag clicked move (10) steps turn cw (15) degrees

    You'll notice that they click in and join together when you drop them close to each other. Don't worry if it takes a few attempts to drag and drop them in. You'll get used to adding the code blocks in no time at all.
    Once you've added these blocks click the green flag at the top left of the stage area to 'run' the code. Each time you click the green flag it will run the code and your sprite will move a small bit and turn.


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    Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu
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