A beginner’s guide to Scratch Chapter 1
Scratch is visual programming environment. With it, you can create your own animations, games and interactive art works. And, while you’re doing that, you’ll learn some important principles and techniques of programming without actually having to write your own code. It’s a great way to get started. To find out more about Scratch, visit the web address scratch.mit.edu
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How to use this guide
We have tried to make this guide as straightforward to use as possible. To help you with the exercises in this chapter, we have already collected some little bits and pieces you will need, such as backgrounds, costumes for sprites, sound effects and complete examples of Scratch projects. These can be found on the Raspberry Pi educational release SD card, in the folder /usr/share/scratch/RPiScratch. Wherever you see the SD card icon in the margin, that means we are referring to a file that can be found on your Raspberry Pi SD card. Go take a look! They can also be downloaded from Google Drive at http://goo.gl/MpHUv
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