The Official Scratch Coding Cards (Scratch 3.0) : Creative Coding Activities for Kids
Natalie Rusk, THE SCRATCH TEAM
Date: May 28, 2019
9781593279769, 1593279760
Cards
Juvenile Nonfiction / Computers / Coding & Programming
Juvenile Nonfiction / Computers / Entertainment & Games
Juvenile Nonfiction / School & Education
Ages 7 to 10, Grades 2 to 5
76 pages
Dimensions (cm): 24.5 x 16.5 x 5.8
Weight (kg): 0.81
Summary
Kids learn to code with a deck of instructional cards by creating interactive games, stories, music, and animations with Scratch, a popular visual programming language.
Now updated for Scratch 3.0, this 75-card deck features interactive programming projects you can make with Scratch, a free-to-use graphical programming language used by millions of kids around the world. The front of each card shows an activity, like Pong, Write an Interactive Story, Create a Virtual Pet, Play Hide and Seek. The back shows how to put code blocks together to make projects come to life! Along the way, kids learn coding concepts like sequencing, conditionals, and variables.
Contributor Bio(s)
Natalie Rusk is one of the lead developers of Scratch and works as a Research Scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Rusk co-founded The Computer Clubhouse, an international network of after-school centers where young people learn to use new technologies to express themselves creatively.
