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October 7, 2021

New release: Coding with Scratch – Create Awesome Platform Games

Available NOW from our online shop – £9.99

This is the second title in The QuestKids children’s series, designed to make learning fun for children.

Coding with Scratch – Create Awesome Platform Games shows kids how to create amazing platform games with Scratch. They will learn how to:

  • Use code to make a series of games where sprites leap from platform to platform.
  • Design different levels, draw graphics, and make simple animations.
  • Use variables to keep the score and to simulate gravity in games.
  • Make code blocks and functions.
  • Add sound to bring games to life.

Starting with an introduction about how Scratch works, this book is suitable for beginners but with lots of tips, challenges, and extensions for experienced Scratch coders.

The QuestKids…

Say hi to our heroic adventurers: Dan Devices and Tiffany Tech! Together they are the best of friends, and an amazing team who love to explore and help each other whenever they can. Dan adores devices, Tiff loves tech, and both are on a constant quest to learn and make learning fun. The friends are joined by their pets, Smuffy and Chew-Chew, who help out in their own special way. Together… they are The QuestKids! As the newest member of the team, they’ll help you to create your own computer games to impress! Don’t know where to start? No worries! Tiffany, Dan, Smuffy and Chew-Chew, together, will take you from coding basics to creating real computer games in easy steps. Now you’ve met the team, it’s time to begin your journey and start creating your own awesome platform games and have fun. Enjoy!

This is the UK English edition.

80 pages / A4
By: Max Wainewright
Publication date: October 7th, 2021
ISBN: 9781840789546

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