Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Super Scratch Programming Adventure!

This book is about Scratch and how to use it. Scratch is a website where you learn to program different things. In this book you learn how to program a game. It has comics mixed in with the programming. It also gives you challenges to see if you can make other things added on to the game. I learned how to make a car move along a surface. The book has pictures of what it would look like on scratch. In the front of the book it gives you information about Scratch. On Scratch you can program games and share them with other scratchers! Make sure you get the updated version 2. 

http://scratch.mit.edu


Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Minecraft redstone handbook

This book tells you about the world of Minecraft. The first chapter tells you about Redstone essentials. The second chapter tells you about Redstone challenges and the third chapter tells you about community creations. It gives you step by step instructions on how to do Mindcraft. It has pictures to show you what it would look like in the game (Mindcraft is a game). It gives you tips and tells you the recipes for different things such as a lever, a tripwire hook, or a Redstone torch. This book is part of a whole Mindcraft series.