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Beginner

Scratch Programming

Our starting course, for students who have not written code before. Everything happens in Scratch, so there is no syntax to memorize and nothing to install.

8 weekly lessons

Start Week 1

Week by week

  1. Week 1Welcome to Scratch!
  2. Week 2XY Coordinate Plane
  3. Week 3Animation Basics
  4. Week 4Loops
  5. Week 5Conditionals & Boolean Statements
  6. Week 6Boolean Statements
  7. Week 7Variables and Parameters
  8. Week 8Broadcasting

These lessons are free to read on your own. We also teach them live, in free classes run by high school volunteers. Enroll in a live class

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Also in Scratch

  • Advanced Scratch — Pong, a calculator, a platformer, Flappy Bird, Space Invaders. One game a week.