Essentials - Learn to Code with Scratch

Created by the boffins at MIT, Scratch enables children and adults without any prior knowledge to start programming within minutes. In this book, we’ll help you get started and guide you step-by-step through the process of creating all sorts of projects: games, animations, quizzes, electronics circuits, and more. With our help we think you’ll find that Scratch isn’t just a great way to learn to code, but lots of fun too!

Learn to programme on your Raspberry Pi through 13 jam-packed chapters:

  • Mast the different block types
  • Create animations & add interactive elements
  • Build your first games and applications
  • Make and control electronic circuits
  • Understand every block
  • and much, much more!

Learn to Code with Scratch is freely licensed under Creative Commons (BY-SA-NC 3.0).

You can download this eBook free now and forever, but buying in print or digital supports the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s charitable mission to democratise computing.

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