Scratch

START BY OPENING A BLANK SCRATCH PROJECT NOW IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS LIKE A TUTORIAL.make sure you can see the scratch window and this window.
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This topic will cover some basics for your first few projects, and also basics about navigation of the site.You can work in a blank project as you read if you want. feel free to add anything I miss. To start, let's explain this block:

[blocks]<when green flag clicked>[/blocks]

drag this onto your script.

then, add this block:

[blocks]<move( 10 )steps>[/blocks]

you should see this:
[blocks]<when green flag clicked>[/blocks]
[blocks]<move( 10 )steps>[/blocks]

now, click the green flag in the corner. the cat should move. now, I'll give a description of each basic item:

To start:
The green flag. When you click this, it will start any scripts that begin with the

[blocks]<when green flag clicked>[/blocks]
block. This leads me to define script and block:

Block- one piece, like

[blocks]<move( 10 )steps>[/blocks]
for example.

Script- Several blocks strung together that control a sprite's actions.

Sprite- The item on the "stage that the scripts control. An example is the orange scratch cat the you see when you first open scratch, labeled "Sprite1."

Stage- The area that everything happens on.

I'll cover backgrounds and costumes in a later post.

(Later posts on this topic will be more in-depth)

This is like an intro- all for now.

-moocow