Intro to Programming with Scratch – Online Programming Course

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone with an interest in programming and who wants to learn to program using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1 –

Get to know Scratch

Sprites, costumes and backdrops

Sequencing in Programming

Moving a sprite

Week 2 –

Repetition

Creating your own blocks

Remixing and the Scratch community

Week 3 –

Conditions

Selection

Storing data in variables

Week 4 –

Lists

Using extensions to extend Scratch

Drawing

Playing music

Interacting with a program using a web cam

Final project

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Explain how to use the Scratch programming environment

Describe a range of Scratch commands and what they do

Produce Scratch programs that allow the user to interact with them with key presses, text answers, and motion

Demonstrate the key programming concepts of sequence, repetition, selection, and variables in Scratch programs