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- Title Scratch Programming Playground: Learn to Program by Making Cool Games
- Author(s) Al Sweigart
- Publisher: No Starch Press; 2nd edition (January 6, 2021); eBook (Creative Commons Edition)
- License(s): CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Paperback: 288 pages
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- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1718500211
- ISBN-13: 978-1718500211
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Book Description
Scratch, the colorful drag-and-drop programming language, is used by millions of first-time learners, and in this book, you'll learn to program by making cool games. Get ready to destroy asteroids, shoot hoops, and slice and dice fruit!
Each game includes easy-to-follow instructions, review questions, and creative coding challenges to make the game your own. Want to add more levels or a cheat code? No problem, just write some code.
You'll learn to make games like:
- Maze Runner: escape the maze!
- Snaaaaaake: gobble apples and avoid your own tail
- Asteroid Breaker: smash space rocks
- Fruit Slicer: a Fruit Ninja clone
- Brick Breaker: a remake of Breakout, the brick-breaking classic
- Platformer: a game inspired by Super Mario Bros.
- Al Sweigart is a software developer and teaches programming to kids and adults. He has written several Python books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Making Games with Python and Pygame.
- Computer Programming
- Computer and Video Game Programming
- New and Miscellaneous Computer/Programming Languages

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