Scatch

For a school project in ICT, we have to make an animated story in a program called "Scratch". It's really cool and I'd like to give you a mini tutorial on it as part of the new thing I'm doing for the blog. Basically, this blog will be about many different things including Animal Jam (mostly Animal Jam) but other computer things or just things that I find remotely interesting. All fun things, all fun things *thumbs up*

 

 

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In Scratch, you can make stories, animations, art, games, and more using codes that have been simplified for you. Once your in Scratch, make an account by clicking something in the top right hand corner like "Create Account"

 

 

Once your account has been created, click "Try out starter projects" to, well, try out starter projects

 

 

Once you're in, pick anything you like that interests you, or just have a little look around at everything before the next step.

 

 

Once you find a project you like, click "See Inside"

 

 

It's... a lot to look at. But don't worry! It will become simpler in time! Next, click "Remix"

 

Once the project is successfully saved into your account, you will see the name of the original project and then "remix" at the end.

 

 

Once that is done, fiddle around by changing different things; the object used as the ball, the colour or size of the ball or paddle, the speed that the ball hits the paddle etc. Don't forget to add all the sprites you might need and coding them as well to interact well with your project.

 

 

To edit any of the "Sprites" used, just select the object and click "costumes"

 

 

Once you have saved your project (it saves automatically, but you can also choose to save it to your computer), click on "My Stuff", the little envelope thing (what are those called????) and you can choose to publish your project to everyone on Scratch, or delete it.

 

Feel free to check out my project (if you want) and have a laugh or just get on with whatever you were doing! My user is Buzgy109 (duh lol)

 

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/71327112/

 

Have fuuuuuuuuuun!