Certificate of Achievement

Holly Long

has completed the following course:

Introduction to Programming with Scratch

Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education

In this course, learners developed an understanding of the block-based programming language Scratch, including the Pen, Music, and Video Sensing extensions. They created several programs in Scratch using the key programming concepts of sequence, repetition, selection, and variables.

4 weeks, 2 hours per week

Dr Sue Sentance

Chief Learning Officer

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Explain how to use the Scratch programming environment
  • Describe a range of Scratch commands and what they do
  • Produce Scratch programs that allow the user to interact with them with key presses, text answers, and motion
  • Demonstrate the key programming concepts of sequence, repetition, selection, and variables in Scratch programs

Syllabus

Week 1 -

  • Get to know Scratch
  • Sprites, costumes and backdrops
  • Sequencing in Programming
  • Moving a sprite

Week 2 -

  • Repetition
  • Creating your own blocks
  • Remixing and the Scratch community

Week 3 -

  • Conditions
  • Selection
  • Storing data in variables

Week 4 -

  • Lists
  • Using extensions to extend Scratch
    • Drawing
    • Playing music
    • Interacting with a program using a web cam
  • Final project

Issued on 26th July 2022

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Free online course:

Introduction to Programming with Scratch

Raspberry Pi Foundation