4. Mr. Wiggly’s Dance—A Quick Scratch Project

So far, you have been presented with an overview of Scratch and its capabilities and learned how to work with its IDE. You have also been given an overview of all of the code blocks that make up the Scratch programming language and learned the basic steps involved in creating Scratch applications. Now that you are more familiar with Scratch and its key components, let’s put this new knowledge to use by creating a new Scratch application project, examining in greater detail the steps involved in creating and executing Scratch applications.

The topics covered in this chapter include:

• A review of the programming concepts that Scratch can teach you

• A detailed overview of how to build Scratch applications

• Learning how to distribute your Scratch programs on CD-ROM