An Introduction to Scratch

..And the young coders movement

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1. An Introduction to Scratch And the young coders movement
3. • Visual language to create stories, games, and animation with a focus on education CREATE STORIES, GAMES ANIMATIONS
4. For Teachers, Parents, Youth, Enthusiasts
5. We programmers take syntax for granted … But we too make mistakes
6. a = b, for (i < x; i++) { … }
7. Ugh.
8. When a 12 year old just wants to animate a cat, why bog them down with syntax?
9. Scratch makes it easy to move objects and react to environmental situations
10. Edit code, art, and sound all in one place.
11. Scratch Community
12. Discussion, Explore
13. Open Source. Share, Remix
14. Safe
15. Programming & Youth Today
16. OBAMA WANTS YOU TO CODE …his military robots
17. Don’t just buy a game, create one!
20. “[Tablets and Smartphones] have a touch controlled interface and one button. If we're amazed our kids can use these devices, we're not expecting enough of our kids.” - Ryan Henson Creighton
21. Not everyone needs to become a computer scientist.
22. Get Involved
25. Evergreen Centre for Street Youth
26. Thank You! http://bit.ly/1gJ5x8q