Raspberry Pi Foundation
- Start Date: 06 Feb, 2023
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Discover the fundamentals of programming using the block-based programming language Scratch.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Learn how to program your own animations and games
Scratch is a powerful, visual programming language that provides a great introduction to the world of programming. By snapping blocks together, you can create amazing animations and games.
Over this four-week course, you’ll learn how to navigate the Scratch programming environment, create your own programs, and share your creations.
Explore the key programming concepts
You’ll start this course with an introduction to the Scratch programming language and the fundamentals of working with sprites, costumes, and backdrops.
As you progress, you’ll build your knowledge of core programming concepts and how best to use them, from sequencing and repetition to selection and variables. Throughout the course, you’ll create your own animations and games to test your new skills.
Become part of the Scratch community to share and remix Scratch projects
A key benefit of working in Scratch is the community, which can be used for support, collaboration, and inspiration.
You’ll become part of the Scratch community, exploring the website and its many features. At different points across this course, you’ll be encouraged to share your work with the wider community and you’ll learn how to view and remix other people’s work.
Create Scratch programs with user interactions built in
As you work towards your final Scratch project of this course, you’ll learn how to produce Scratch programs that allow the user to interact with them with keypresses, text answers, and motion. Using Scratch extensions, you’ll also learn how to create programs that draw shapes, play music, and even sense the user’s movements using a webcam.
Then, you’ll bring all of your new programming knowledge and skills together to build your own game or animation using the tools and concepts you’ve learnt throughout this course.
This course is designed for anyone with an interest in programming and who wants to learn to program using Scratch, a block-based programming language.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future.
We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun. We provide outreach and education to help more people access computing and digital making. We develop free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers, and train educators who can guide other people to learn.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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