Scratch Programming in easy steps: Covers versions 1.4 and 2.0 1st Edition

This book is wonderful. The illustrations are clear and concise. It is very well-organized and informative. Every page is full color and chock-full of hot tips. The book at full price is worth every penny!I teach Scratch Programming to elementary and middle school students, and I find this is one of the most approachable, useful, thorough and fun of all the books on Scratch I have found to-date.I recommend this book to all my students and their parents, and would also recommend it to anyone trying to learn or to teach Scratch. Thank you to the author for putting together such an excellent resource.

The book covers a lot of examples that are easy to follow - and in color, which is important for younger users to be able to follow along. It's a book I've both used with my own children and adapted for classroom use - for kids AND adults. I really appreciate that McManus also covers some physical computing examples at the end of the book - including using webcams, microphones, the PicoBoard and the Raspberry Pi.

It's a good book to learn all the abilities of the scratch language, but it's written for scratch 2.0 and below, so it's not the most up-to-date book. I do love all the color images and simplicity of the book.

This book made it easy for me to teach my kids some basics of programming using Scratch. The system makes programming easy and the projects in the book make it fun for the kids to learn. My 9-year old daughter actually asked for me to have "Scratch Class" for them once we got started!

Fantastic. I love the diagrams as well as the instruction. It opened a whole new world for my aught ear and myself in learning about the opportunities that Scratch can give.

Awesome beginners book for all ages! It teachers you the basics as well as more advanced coding in easy to read/follow color pictures and instructions! Well worth the money and very helpful.

Great book, a gentle intro to programming ("coding"), My kids loved it and are asking for more. A must have

Author knows his stuff. But trying to cover two versions of the program in one book can get confusing. Great photos of excat code segments, but the colors arent exactly correct ( or MIT chenged them?) so that causes some menu confusion. I like the companion book on Scratch Projects a little better if you are only going to buy one. (It comes with 3D glass for one interesting project.) You don't need this boom to use the other.