Coding Projects in Scratch: A Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Coding Your Own Animations, Games, Simulations, a (DK Help Your Kids)

I got a B.S. in computer science education and a Ph.D. in computer science and am working as a software engineer. I chose this book to teach my son and his friends.This book helps kids create simple games, animations, etc., using Scratch. Kids should at least know how to use Scratch. They should also know concepts like loops, conditional statements, variables, events, and sprites.. This book also explains these concepts but it is very superficial.Your kids don't know them? Don't worry. You can learn all the concepts mentioned above for free on code.org site. I recommend learning the concepts there before starting this book. My son, a fourth grader, and his friend completed the basic concepts on code.org over about 12 hours. (about 6 weeks)This book introduces 18 small projects. Each project consists of about 10 pages. It is structured with step-by-step explanations to complete the basic projects and assignments to add additional features. Before starting each project, you can search for the project on the Scratch website to see what others have done. You can show this to the kids to set goals.Don't expect to learn any algorithms through this book. This book helps kids create sprites and backgrounds on the screen and code them to interact.I highly recommend this book for elementary school students!

This Coding Projects in Scratch book is definitely going to keep the interest of kids who want to code their own simple games and animations. The book does include directions for downloading the Scratch coding program online for free.

Not written in the latest code but it is still relevant to my classroom. The kids love the projects in the book.

It is easy to navigate but my kids boys 9 and 12 where just not interested I think they will benefit from instructional coding.

My 7 year old has been burning through this and the games coding book since Xmas. The instructions are super easy to follow and seeing his excitement at completing projects is awesome to experience.

I started a Coding club at the kids school. It’s helped us all learn the ins and outs of scratch. The kiddos seem to enjoy the projects and are having fun engaging in STEM!

We had an older edition of this book, but my son ran into problems because of how Scratch 3.0 is different than previous versions. Once we got this book, my son was easily able to work through the projects. I had him write the date on the page when he finished each project. He has used programs like code combat (for python) and Tynker, but he's struggled to get the instruction and directions that he needed. I felt like this book scaffolded his learning much better than using those websites.

Easy to use! The kids have created all kinds of games on their own. They love it. They don’t need any instruction or help from me. Highly recommend if your children are interested in coding!