--For dummies.

Includes index

Code the explode Block for the Emoji ClonesSave, Test, and Debug Your Program; Share Your Program with the World; Enhance Your Animated Scene; Sidebar: Setting Position; Sidebar: Setting Direction; Sidebar: Moving; Sidebar: Simple Repeat Loops; Sidebar: New Blocks (aka Functions); CHAPTER 9: Smelephant; Brainstorm; Start a New Project; Add a Backdrop; Add a Smelephant Sprite; Sidebar: Rotation Style in Scratch; Code the Green Flag Code of the Smelephant; Code the Smelephant's Up Arrow Key Control; Sidebar: Animating Shapes; Code Arrow Keys for Moving the Smelephant Down, Left, and Right

A guide for kids who want to learn coding Coding is quickly becoming an essential academic skill, right up there with reading, writing, and arithmetic. This book is an ideal way for young learners ages 8-13 who want more coding knowledge than you can learn in an hour, a day, or a week. Written by a classroom instructor with over a decade of experience teaching technology skills to kids as young as five, this book teaches the steps and logic needed to write code, solve problems, and create fun games and animations using projects based in Scratch and JavaScript. This 2nd Edition is fully updated to no longer require any limited-time software downloads to complete the projects