Course 4: Scratch for Beginners | The Ultimate Course
This course is designed for absolute beginners, guiding you from the fundamentals of Scratch to creating your own projects. You'll start by learning the interface, sprites, and basic programming concepts like sequencing to build your very first project. Building on this foundation, you'll bring characters to life by exploring animation and interactive storytelling with motion, looks, and sound blocks. Finally, you'll dive into game development, where you'll build core game mechanics and master the essential concept of game loops. This structure ensures a smooth and engaging learning experience, combining foundational skills with fun, practical projects.
Course Table of Contents
1 - Scratch Programming Tutorial: Understanding the Scratch Workspace
This beginner-friendly tutorial is designed to introduce you to the Scratch interface, helping you start creating your own interactive stories, games, and animations. You'll learn to confidently navigate the Scratch workspace and become familiar with its key tools, so you'll be ready to build your first projects, no prior coding experience needed!
2 - Scratch for Kids: Motion Blocks - Make Games & Animations
Explore the magic of Scratch's Motion Blocks in this tutorial, designed for beginners and kids learning to code. You'll discover how to make sprites move, turn, and glide to create engaging animations and games, including how to make a butterfly dance or a ball bounce off the screen.
3 - Sequences in Scratch: The Foundation of Coding (Learn Scratch Basics)
This beginner-friendly Scratch tutorial is all about mastering sequences, the fundamental building block of all coding. You'll learn what sequences are, why they're essential for controlling the flow of your code, and how to implement them in your own games and animations, providing you with the core knowledge needed to create efficient and well-structured projects.
4 - Scratch Coding for Kids: Mastering the Looks Category (Costumes, Backdrops, Effects)
This beginner-friendly tutorial introduces you to Scratch's powerful Looks Blocks, which are essential for visually enhancing your projects. You will learn how to make sprites "say" and "think" things, change their costumes and the stage's backdrops, adjust their size, apply various graphic effects, and manage layers, all of which are perfect for kids and anyone new to Scratch programming.
5 - Make a Robot Dance in Scratch?! Sound Blocks Tutorial for Kids!
Welcome to the magical world of Scratch Sound Blocks! This beginner-friendly tutorial will show you how to bring your projects to life by playing sounds, layering them to create music, and changing pitch and volume. You'll learn all these skills by building a fun, step-by-step dancing robot project, perfect for kids and anyone just starting their coding journey.
6 - Scratch Sounds Tab: Record, Edit, & Create Custom Sound Effects
In this beginner-friendly Scratch tutorial, you'll learn to make your projects even cooler by mastering the Sounds Tab. We'll show you how to choose from the Scratch sound library, record your own audio, and edit it with fun effects like robot voice, fade in/out, and reverse, all while creating a custom sound effect from scratch.
7 - I Made a Scratch Animation! (Storytelling & Character Design)
This easy-to-follow tutorial is your gateway to creating your very own animated stories in Scratch, designed specifically for complete beginners. You'll learn the full process from start to finish, including how to brainstorm creative ideas, design your characters, bring them to life with Scratch's animation blocks, and enhance your final project with sound, all while gaining the skills to impress your friends with your incredible digital creations.
8 - Scratch Animation Tutorial: Dance Moves with Motion & Looks Blocks
Want to create your own awesome dance party? This Scratch tutorial is for you! You'll learn how to animate your characters with easy dance moves using Motion and Looks blocks, and how to make your dances loop seamlessly with the essential Repeat block. By the end, you'll be able to make your sprites spin, step, change costumes, and groove, giving you a fun introduction to coding in Scratch.
9 - Scratch Animation Tutorial: Event Handling, Sound Effects, and Dance Performance
This Scratch animation tutorial will teach you the essential programming concepts of event handling and how to make your projects interactive. You'll learn how to add sound effects and background music to enhance your stories and games. We'll walk you through creating a step-by-step dance performance animation, making it easy for beginners to create their own amazing Scratch animations with sound.
10 - Learn Scratch Game Development - Part 1: Basic Mechanics, Loops, & Your First Objective!
If you've ever wanted to create your own games in Scratch, this is the tutorial for you! In this first part, you'll learn the essential game mechanics, how to use the "forever" block for loops, and how to set up simple objectives, giving you the foundation to start coding your very first game today.