Scratch 104: Advanced Animation with Scratch 3.0

Scratch is ideal for not just animating characters on a canvas but also to have them converse with each other via speech and thought bubbles! This course teaches you how to create captivating conversations between your sprites and how to script elaborate stories involving them. For more fun, insert yourself as a participant in these stories to create interactive programs that accept and respond to user input. The concepts learned in this course will serve as a building block to creating elaborate arcade-style games in future courses.

What you need to know

Familiarity with the Scratch programming environment (sprites, backdrops, and blocks) is required as well as an understanding of basic Scratch blocks for movement, drawing, animation, cloning, and conversations. The Scratch Programming course and Animation with Scratch course are the pre-requisites for this course and cover all necessary background.

What you will learn

After completing this Scratch coding course, you would have mastered:

Recognizing and responding to sprite clicks

Tracking and following mouse movements

Reacting to keyboard presses

Using randomness in games

Cloning characters on demand

Score keeping and countdown clocks

System Requirements

1. We will be using Scratch version 3.0 with a web browser.

2. If you are on a desktop computer, you can use any of the following browsers: Chrome (63+), Edge (15+), Firefox (57+), or Safari (11+). Internet Explorer is NOT supported.

3. If you are on a tablet, you can use the following browsers: Mobile Chrome (63+) or Mobile Safari (11+).