Scratch Coding for Beginners: A Step-By-step Beginner's Guide to Creating Video Games, Art, and Animation in Scratch 3.0 Paperback – November 16, 2022

Welcome to the amazing world of Scratch coding! Scratch Coding for Beginners is a hands-on kids coding guide designed for absolute beginners ages 6 and up.Does your child or teen like playing video games? Why not teach them how to make their own games while learning important skills of the future.Developed by the CodaKid team who has taught over 100,000 students how to code since 2014, Scratch Coding for Beginners begins with the basics of Scratch 3.0 and then builds up to exciting projects in which you code your own games, apps, and interactive stories that you can share with friends and family.The book features fun and accessible projects that combine coding, video game design, and art projects that build children's confidence in coding, math, and STEM.Prepare your child for tomorrow's worldCoding is an essential 21st century skill that that helps children and teens develop problem solving abilities, critical thinking, attention to detail, creativity, artistic expression, and more.Scratch coding provides children and teens with the foundation that they need to master visual block coding and prepare themselves to make the jump to text based coding.Using CodaKid's project-based learning approach students will learn about important coding concepts such as conditionals, loops, variables, functions, and more - while making a series of fun and exciting games and other projects.CodaKid reinforces learning with a number of extension activities and QR code access to fun and exciting videos that explain programming concepts in more detail.Follow Simple Instructions and Go from Zero to Hero in ScratchCodaKid uses simple visual instructions to teach kids and teens how to build their own games, art, and animation.Each of our 11 projects builds upon knowledge learned from the prior chapter and provides students with clear instruction, code challenges to foster independence, and access to instructional videos.In this book you will learn:- Visual block coding on how to make video games, art, and animation.- Important coding concepts that can be transferred to other languages and frameworks.- Video game design and digital art skills Read more