📅 Jun 08, 2022
📅 Jun 08, 2022
When we think about creating projects by coding in different languages, it is very common for us to get a little overwhelmed by the idea. Since coding has always been considered a skill that needs a lot of mastering and practice, we might refrain from creating projects as a beginner. But what if I tell you that despite being a kid and not having extremely good coding skills you can still make interesting and complex coding projects.
Yes, you read it right! There exists a programming language that is easy to learn and grasp – Scratch. You can master it within a few weeks and get on with your task of creating extremely good and interesting projects.
Scratch is a visual programming language specially designed for students. It is a block-based programming language. All the activities and codes written in Scratch can be divided and isolated into segments called blocks. It allows children to explore their creative side, collaborate and make good use of their innovative abilities to reason and create.
A lot of games and projects have been developed from scratch by professionals as well as kids. Some of them are:
Paper Minecraft
Geometry dash
Mystic valley
Appel
Pokemon clicker
Flip 3D
As a beginner, it might be a little difficult for you to come up with project ideas that you can make on the platform. However, I am here to help you out and make your task a little easier by suggesting good project ideas that you can easily make once you are familiar with the language. You can add your innovations and changes to these ideas to make them more authentic and interesting. Also, you can combine elements of various projects and make a more complex one to test your skills.
Here Are Some Interesting Project Ideas:
Greeting Cards: We all love to wish people on special occasions be it birthdays, anniversaries, promotions or any occasion of celebration. You can make a greeting card using Scratch Coding. You can add text, sprites and movements to the sprite. You can make it as creative as you want through motion and other elements present.
Collage: You can make a collage of all things you love. It can be all your favourite food items, your favourite artists, your favourite movies or anything you love. You can add animation and motion where they can pop one by one. This would be an easy and interesting project.
Maze: This is one of the most popular projects made by most Scratch coders in their beginner journey. This can be created by the people who have a great interest in gaming. You can create obstacles of your wish and construct new levels. You can add features of keeping a check on scores and foul plays. The movements can be done using keyboard commands. You can either create a sprite for movement or a ball or an animal.
Piano: This is a project for all music enthusiasts. You can create a piano with a very innovative appearance and can assign music or notes of various levels be it high or low as per your wishes. You can then execute various music or melodies using the keys of the piano. You can get more creative by adding notes from some other instrument making your piano more interesting and fun.
Story Telling: The art of storytelling dates back to the ancient ages. Storyboards and depicting your story through visual programming is the best way to explain your creativity and imagination. Scratch coding can be used to depict a story. You can add characters, make them have a conversation and add movements like walking, running, hopping etc. Sounds interesting, right?
Sound Garden: This is a very artistic project. You can create a garden of your own. You can add swings, children, birds, trees and all sorts of things you wish to add. Then in the next step, you can add the sound of the breeze, birds chirping, children laughing and even slight music of swings. This can make your garden of the imagination a very beautiful and artistic concept and project.
Dance Party: Ever wanted to go to clubs and enjoy a night out? Now you can with the Scratch project that you can curate easily with all the basic skills. You can create your dance party. Add sprites of your own choice. Modify their appearance, clothes and dance moves and explore with the interface to create a party of your own choice.
Newsletter: Want to show off your research and journaling skills? Scratch allows you to do that as well. You can create your newsletter and additional information regarding the technologies all over the world. You can talk about Metaverse, NFTs, AR, VR etc. whatever you like and add videos and photos to your newsletter.
Dream City: Scratch is such a versatile tool that you can create your own city. You can add your buildings, cars, parks etc. and make the city of your dreams. This is a very complex project that can test all the skills you have acquired so far in Scratch coding.
Memes: Who doesn’t love looking at memes and laughing out loud? With Scratch, you can create your memes and even add sound to them. Then you can export and share them on your social media platforms or even sell them as NFTs.
Quiz: Create a quiz about any intriguing subject you love. Create questions and add animations like the appearance of red colour on giving the wrong answer. This can make your quiz interesting and people would enjoy answering questions.
Pacman Game: We all have played Pacman in our childhood. So now it is your turn to make it in Scratch and add your innovation to it.
Soccer: Create your soccer team of 5 vs 5 and create a field with players playing the game. This is a project which can test several skills you have learnt.
Dress up games: Loved playing dress up games in your childhood? Now you can create your own game with different outfits, makeup, hairstyles etc. and have fun playing dress-up.
Create your music using the music feature on Scratch and then develop your beats using already existing different beats and melodies.
Since now you have several options to choose from, what are you waiting for? Go and Code in Scratch and explore your creativity, innovation and imagination. Good Luck!
This article is written by Jaskirat kaur. Jaskirat is an intern at VRAcademi who is currently pursuing Btech. from PEC Chandigarh.
