Scratch 2.0 Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours

Created at the legendary MIT Media Lab, Scratch is the easy, highly-visual, open source programming environment that's taking the world by storm. Sams Teach Yourself Scratch 2.0 in 24 Hours guides students through every step of learning to program with the brand-new version of Scratch. This guide teaches simply and clearly, through 24 concise, hands-on lessons focused on knowledge you can apply immediately. Each lesson builds on what's come before, showing exactly how to get practical results fast. Using Scratch 2.0's simple interface, students will learn how to build games and multimedia interactions without the steep learning curve that new programmers usually have to climb. Unlike other books on Scratch, this one teaches "best practices" for writing programs the right way, from the very beginning.