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Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982226
Pages 96 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Leonard Bates Daniel Leonard Bates
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Daniel Bates is a computer science researcher at the University of Cambridge. His day job involves inventing designs for future mobile phone processors and when he gets home, he likes playing games or working on one of his coding projects (or both!). Daniel has been a volunteer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation since 2011 and is enthusiastic about introducing new people to computing. He has previously written Instant Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to and Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (First Edition), both published by Packt Publishing.
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi 2. Making Your Own Angry Birds Game 3. Testing Your Speed 4. Making an Interactive Map of Your City Index

Scratch

In this chapter, we will use Scratch to create our game. Scratch is a programming language that has been specially designed to make animations and games with ease. Scratch Version 1.4 comes as standard with the Raspberry Pi but is also available on other computers. You can download it from http://scratch.mit.edu/ if you ever want to play your game away from your Raspberry Pi. Start up Scratch by double-clicking on its icon on the desktop (it should have the picture of a cartoon cat). The following screenshot shows the Scratch layout:

The following are its main sections:

  • Menu (1): This is where the options are to save and load your projects. If you ever want inspiration to code for projects, take a look at the provided examples by navigating to File | Open | Examples. Remember to save and back up your progress regularly!

  • Sprite controls (2): Every picture in the game is called a sprite. These buttons allow you to copy, remove, grow, and shrink sprites. To use them, click on the button...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Daniel Leonard Bates
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Daniel Bates is a computer science researcher at the University of Cambridge. His day job involves inventing designs for future mobile phone processors and when he gets home, he likes playing games or working on one of his coding projects (or both!). Daniel has been a volunteer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation since 2011 and is enthusiastic about introducing new people to computing. He has previously written Instant Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to and Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (First Edition), both published by Packt Publishing.
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