There are lots of books you can buy and handy cards you can buy or download to teach yourself Scratch and make cool projects at the same time.
For Our Junior Entrepreneur Project in School, we made our own cards to sell to teach you how to code. There are 15 cards which will teach you all the functions of scratch in a fun and simple way! If you would like to buy a set, contact us on our school on twitter @scoilanclochain or on our website scoilanclochain.scoilnet.ie
There are some other project cards you can download made by Scratch.mit group.
In the Starter Cards you can learn how to: * Change Colour *Move to a beat * Move to keys *Say Something *Glide *Follow the mouse *Dance Twist *Interactive whirl *Animate it *Moving Animation *Suprise Button *Keep Score.
In Animate Your Name you will learn how to: *Colour Clicker *Spin *Play a Sound *Dancing Letter *Change size *Press a key *Glide Around
Here are some of the other cards that you can download to make the projects below - click on the link to see them all and download them.
Having a look at projects on Scratch can be a great way to teach yourself new things, you can use the look inside button to have a look at the code used to do certain actions in Scratch. Here are some Scratch Projects made by me and people in my school - have a look at them and see if you can remix them and change things around a bit to create your own version of our projects.