Imagine. Program. Share. We have been working hard programming our imagination, but now it's time to share our creativity with the world. Sharing not only lets us show off our work, but it also gives us an opportunity to receive feedback that we can then use to improve our projects.
Now that we have projects in our portfolio, it's time to share them with a wider audience. In this chapter, we will:
- Share our projects with the Scratch community
- Use social networks to promote our projects
- Host projects on our own web site
Come on. Let's not keep our work a secret.
As you browse projects on the Scratch web site, you may notice some projects get featured while, others have a lot of views and "love its." As a new Scratch programmer, we need to focus on developing our programming skills rather than trying to win a popularity contest.
Don't get discouraged if your projects seem to get lost among the thousands of other community projects. You'll eventually find an audience with the help of this chapter.
Now, let's select a project to share. I'm going to use the pong project from Chapter 6.
When we share our work on the Web, we need to be conscious of how big our project file gets. Images and sounds will increase our file size more than anything else, and projects with large files take longer to load and play from the Web.
Fortunately, Scratch gives us a way to reduce the file size of our images and sounds before we share them on the Web.