Introduction to Programming with Scratch (edX)

Over this four-week course, you'll learn how to navigate the Scratch programming environment, create your own programs, and share your creations. Along the way, you'll learn about the key programming concepts of sequence, repetition, selection, and variables, and how you can best make use of them. You'll also become part of the Scratch community, and remix other people's work.

What you'll learn

Over the following four weeks, you will:

- 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

Syllabus

Week 1 – Sequencing in Scratch

Getting to know Scratch

Sprites, costumes, and backdrops

Sequencing in programming

Moving a sprite

Week 2 – Iteration, abstraction, and the Scratch community

Repetition

Creating your own blocks

Remixing and the Scratch community

Week 3 – Using conditions, selection, and variables in your projects

Conditions

Selection

Storing data in variables

Week 4 – The power of lists and extensions

Lists

Using extensions in Scratch

Final project