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Guide to

Introduction

Scratch is a website that uses block coding. There are 9 types of blocks: motion, look, sound, events, control, sensing, operators, variables, and your blocks. We will be gradually helping you to improve in using these blocks to code games, stories, and etc.

Getting to know Sprites

Sprites are the characters in scratch. You code them in order to make them do something. Scratch has a massive amount of sprites to choose from and use in your coding. If you do not like them, you can upload your own images of your sprite.

The Motion Blocks

The motion block is a block that you put down to move your sprites. A motion block can control how far you go how fast you go and many more things. The basics to know about the motion block is that it involves moving in some way either turning left or right or moving forward.

The Look Block

The Look block is broken down into 2 compartments you have the look of the sprite and the dialogue of the sprite. The look of the sprite can change its appearance size and color. The dialogue of the sprite is when it says hello or bye it can control how long it waits to say something and many more.

The backdrop is the setting of where your sprite is. You can decide to choose your own story and put the sprite wherever you want because you control the world during the playing period there are times where you can switch the back drop whenever like a play.

Backdrop

What scratch teaches

As you know scratch teaches block coding. Block coding is a coding method that involves dragging and dropping a piece of code under a start block then hitting play and seeing what the sprite or your blocks to do something. Block coding is not only in scratch it is used in vex code vr and other coding websites. Block coding is simpler than writing code because instead of writing fancy code you can just have a block that is already precoded.