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Scratch
Don’t just Play
Don’t Just Play Scratch
Games—Make them!
Programming
Games—make them! Programming
Playground
®
Scratch, the colorful drag-and-drop program- Fruit Slicer: a Fruit Ninja clone Playground
ming language, is used by millions of first-time Brick Breaker: a remake of Breakout ,
®
learners, and in Scratch Programming Play- the brick-breaking classic
ground, you’ll learn to program by making
cool games. Get ready to destroy asteroids, Platformer: a game inspired by Super Learn to program by making cool games
shoot hoops, and slice and dice fruit! Mario Bros. ®
Each game includes easy-to-follow instruc- Learning how to program shouldn’t be
tions, review questions, and creative coding dry and dreary. With Scratch Programming
challenges to make the game your own. Want Playground, you’ll make a game of it! Al Sweigart
to add more levels or a cheat code? No problem,
just write some code. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Scratch Programming Playground
You’ll learn to make games like: Al Sweigart is a software developer who Scratch Programming Playground
Maze Runner: escape the maze! teaches programming to kids and adults.
He has written several best-selling Python
Snaaaaaake: gobble apples and avoid your books for beginners, including Automate
own tail the Boring Stuff with Python, also from
Asteroid Breaker: smash space rocks No Starch Press.
SNAaaaaaKE Brick Breaker platformer
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