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Major Kate, Pirate Pierre, Captain Maria, and Sir Percival need your help! Bring a space, pirate, jungle, and knight adventure to life using the free beginner coding language Scratch. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions illustrated in a graphic novel style, this is the perfect introduction to key coding concepts.

Prepare to save Planet Zyskinar, search for buried treasure, find the Lost City of Gold, and discover the Book of Spells! After an introduction to finding and using Scratch, you will embark on these four coding adventures. For each story, follow each numbered step of the illustrated instructions to draw the central characters and objects, animate the plot lines, and create games. A glossary at the back defines key coding terms.

Choose your mission and get ready to code!

Max Wainewright has written over 20 educational software titles for children, and many books on coding. His programs and websites have won a number of awards including BETT, ERA, and Practical Pre-School Gold Awards and are used by children throughout the world. In recent years, Max designed and developed Espresso Coding—a website used by many thousands of schools to teach coding (now called DE Coding and a part of Discovery Learning). Max lives in London with his wife and two children, and teaches coding 3 days a week in a local school.

Henry Smith is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s an artist who was captivated by cartoons at an early age and never grew out of them. Now, they’re his career and he’s made a name for himself designing unique characters that are full of humour.

Contents
Using Scratch
Code Your Own Space Adventure
Code Your Own Pirate Adventure
Code Your Own Jungle Adventure
Code Your Own Knight Adventure
Glossary
Index

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Code Your Own Adventure

Code Your Own Adventure

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