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6 Scratch Programming—

Introduction to Game Creation

Learning Outcomes Let’s Learn About

• Scratch • Looks Block
Students will be able to
• Components of • Working with Multi ple
• handle commands of diff erent blocks.
Scratch Window Sprites
• create a working multi-player game. • Types of Blocks in • Pen Blocks
Scratch • Creati ng a Duplicate
• Changing Backdrop of Copy of Sprite
Stage • Sound Blocks
• Moti on Block • Control Blocks

Activity Corner

Name the languages which you can speak fl uently. ____________________________________
Which language do you speak at home? ____________________________________

Does a computer understand the language we speak?
Yes No

We need a language to communicate with each other. In the same way a computer has its own
language. The language which computer understands is a programming language. It has a set of
instructions that a computer uses to perform any activity.

We will learn about Scratch in this chapter which is a programming language.

Scratch

Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program
and create interactive media such as stories, games and animations with people from all over
the world. It is one of the easiest computer languages.
Learn More
Features of Scratch

• Scratch is freely available on the Internet and can Scratch is compatible on diff erent
operating systems like Windows,
be downloaded.
Mac OS and Linux.
• It is easy to install and understand.

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