Learn how to code with Scratch to easily create interactive stories, games and animations in this free online course. Scratch is a block-based programming language that lets children, young adults and digital art beginners create interactive stories, games and cartoons. This Scratch training course introduces the basics of working with sprites, costumes, event blocks and variables to design impressive scripts. We explain how to use coordinates and conditionals in Scratch before showing you how to use iterative drawing and update variables before creating games.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195211 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Discuss the basic concepts of Scratch and define terms like ‘sprite’ • Explain how to use tempo, events and variables in Scratch • Describe the use of coordinates and conditionals in Scratch • Explain how to update variables repeatedly • Describe how use iterative drawing in Scratch • Outline how to use ‘ask-and-answer’ blocks • Summarise how to create games using the Scratch programming language • Explain how to use Scratch to create animated images, stories and songs |
| Course Code | 5536 |
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