DK Workbooks: Coding in Scratch: Projects Workbook: Make Cool Art, Interactive Images, and Zany Music

Kids are loving this book. It's easy to follow, and gets them programming in no time flat. The kids say it's very detailed about what to do and how to do it. It doesn't have good diagnostic tools or lessons for when things go wrong. It teaches kids not only the lessons in the book, , but how to program generally. I've included a video of the first lesson, which allowed them to program a figure that moves, changes color, and makes sounds when the mouse is depressed. They were able to complete this program in 15-20 minutes, including the initial orientation of what the program was. Each program could take 5-15 minutes after this initial orientation. There are endless possibilities after meeting the lesson objectives, so this book is a near infinite resource. Scratch is so easy to use and does a great job of teaching kids programming. This book makes it even easier and less scary.

While Scatch is free to use and free explanations are available at scratch.mit.edu, I have purchased three different books from this series and highly recommend them for a step-by-step guide for younger children. The books introduce new skills with each lesson. My granddaughters who are 6 and 7 were able to use them and were engrossed in the coding for longer periods of time with each use than I anticipated. The 6-year-old needed help with the reading

This is an excellent workbook to help you learn or teach Scratch. I used many this book fairly extensively in teaching my students Scratch and found it easy for me to use and for them to understand. I taught this with grades 4 - 6.

After doing the earlier coding work books from DK, my son wanted to do more projects like the very customized ones he was seeing on scratch.mit.edu. But I had no idea how to help him. The day these arrived, he started his most ambitious video game design yet and had all the tools he needed to make it work. This is a great intro to the world of coding!

My 8 year old just started and it is helping

Scratch coding for beginners. Teaches my young son early lessons on scratch coding. Loved these.

would order again.

This book is helpful for learning understanding scratch. The reason for 3 stars instead of 5 is it took 12 days for this item to prepare for shipment.

Good for beginners of any age

Scratch is a free object program that can be easily taught to children. recommend to begin to write little scripts that creates nice simple games and projects.

Good book Can be more subtle

My 8-year-old son had previously done about 2 hours of Scratch programming with a friend, and he dug into this book immediately. In about 3 hours of working solo, he managed to implement two of the five projects in this book, and customized the projects. He needed only a little help to learn to implement variables for the first time. The book is a slim volume, beautifully illustrated, and the projects are bite-sized and perfect for kids. I appreciated that these projects were more varied than just games.

The content in this book is very basic (good for a kid in grade 1-2) and not what I expected. I think it is not properly presented on this website. No coding of any kind, no concepts of coding explained. Just a drag-n-drop blocks of simplistic predetermined cmds. Have tried to return it, but they won't pay for shipping (which is as much as the book)