Scratch Coding Lesson 2 - Scratch Overview
Let’s dive into Scratch and learn a little more about this tool.
On the right side of the screen we have what is called a Stage. Everything happens on the stage. Backdrops are backgrounds for the stage. Information about backdrops is displayed in this little area over here.
On the stage you add sprites. Sprites can be anything like a person, place or thing.
When you create a new project you always get the cat sprite by default.
When you select a sprite, you can add code, costumes, and sounds to that sprite using these three tabs.
There are different kinds of code blocks organized by categories. Each category gets a different color and label.
To see the code blocks for a category, simply click on the colored circle for that category.
To add code blocks to your sprite, simply click on the block, drag, and release on the code area.
Blocks have different shapes like legos. Some blocks can only connect to other blocks based on their shape.
Costumes are used to animate your sprites. You can click on this tab to create or change costumes for your sprite.
To add sounds to your sprite, you click on the sounds tab.
As you learn and create more things in Scratch, you are going to need a free Scratch account in order to save all of your projects.
The challenge for this lesson is to sign up for a free Scratch account. You will need an email address for this. After you sign up, you will be sent a confirmation email. It is very important that you confirm your email by clicking on the button in the email they send. If you do not, you will not have access to certain features in Scratch you need to complete this course.
Visit https://scratch.mit.edu and click the Join Scratch menu item at the top left of the screen.