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Scruzzles

What are ‘Scruzzles‘ you may ask?  Well, it’s a puzzle, in Scratch! I’ve put together a small set of them on the Scratch website.  Have a go and let me know what you think.  If you have ideas for other…

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Simple Gravity

To make jumping, falling and throwing objects look realistic, you need to include real-world effects like gravity.  This video shows you how to add gravity to a bouncing ball.     Download the Scratch 2.0 code: simple_gravity

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Clone bubbles

When you want to have lots of the same object, you can often use clones (Scratch 2.0) to create them very easily.  This also has the advantage that if you want to change them, you only have to do it…

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Bring your characters alive!

This video shows you how to add simple behaviours to your Scratch sprites.  When they breathe and blink, you can make them seem much more alive.  Think about the birds in Angry Birds – they don’t stand still like paper…

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Positioning your sprites using x and y

This video covers how the x and y coordinates work when you are moving things around the stage.  There are also a couple of tips for movement commands.  

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The Scratch Interface

Just a quick walk-through of the main parts of the Scratch interface, pointing out a few of the helpful features you may not have noticed yet.

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Blimey - this Scratch stuff is really good!

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I'm a programmer and a teacher. And I love Scratch!

I also play with Crumble, Arduino, MicroPython, Bluno and MaKey MaKey.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu

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