Today you are coding in Scratch. You will build a Racing Car at your device, step by step.
You can already add sprites and run a project with the green flag. Today the focus is on testing as you go and fixing bugs with a clear routine when something does not work.
Before you run anything new, think: what should the car do when it is on the track, and what should change on the grass?
Create a new Scratch project and delete the cat sprite.
Included with this step is a red car picture that we're going to upload into our Scratch project. First download the picture file onto your computer and then upload it into your project.
To download a picture to your computer, right click on the picture and then click on 'Save image as...'
As the car sprite is very large, we'll need to shrink it so that it has room to move around. We're going to shrink it to 10% of it's original size. Add the following code to the car sprite.
when green flag clicked
set size to (10) %
Click on the green flag and the car will shrink to a smaller size.
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