This tool is intended to make programming easier to learn for novice programmers and can be used to create computer games, interactive stories, graphic artwork, computer animation and other multimedia projects.

Includes index.

Introducing Scratch 2.0 -- Getting comfortable with the Scratch 2.0 development environment -- A review of the basic components of Scratch projects -- Mr. Wiggly's dance : a quick Scratch project -- Moving things around -- Sensing Sprite position and controlling environmental settings -- Storing and retrieving data -- Doing a little math -- Controlling script execution -- Changing the way Sprites look and behave -- Spicing things up with sounds -- Drawing lines and shapes -- Improving code organization -- Game development using collision detection.