Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this Code Along Jr. episode, our awesome host, Kalani, introduces you to Scratch and teaches you how to create your own project from “scratch” 😉. She will teach you how to use the blocks palette to make your sprite move. She’ll also teach you how to change your sprite, add more actions to your sprite, and how to change your backdrop.
Skip to the good stuff:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 What is Scratch?
01:20 Explore Scratch website
02:27 Create your own project from “scratch”
03:10 Explore different areas on the screen
05:00 How to change your sprite
07:24 How to add more actions to your sprite
09:44 How to change your backdrop
10:30 Save your project
About Code Along
Everyone’s invited to Code Along with Black Girls Code. It's a free, video-based coding academy by Black Girls Code in partnership with GoldieBlox. Here, Black girls, young women, and youth of all genders receive tangible, educational, and entertaining tutorials to spark interest in computer science and tech. With fun projects and simple step-by-step lessons, this series encourages you to code along while our expert coders make a game, a song, an animation, a story, and an AI chatbot using Scratch. In these 15-minute-or-less episodes, Code Along reaches millions of girls and provides them with the tech skills and confidence to build brighter futures. Speaking of future innovators — we also chatted with Googlers and toured a Google office space. Learn a new skill, discover a new role model, and Code Along with us.
#howtocode #blackgirlscode #goldieblox #codingtutorial #codealong #scratch
In this Code Along Jr. episode, our awesome host, Kalani, introduces you to Scratch and teaches you how to create your own project from “scratch” 😉. She will teach you how to use the blocks palette to make your sprite move. She’ll also teach you how to change your sprite, add more actions to your sprite, and how to change your backdrop.
Skip to the good stuff:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 What is Scratch?
01:20 Explore Scratch website
02:27 Create your own project from “scratch”
03:10 Explore different areas on the screen
05:00 How to change your sprite
07:24 How to add more actions to your sprite
09:44 How to change your backdrop
10:30 Save your project
About Code Along
Everyone’s invited to Code Along with Black Girls Code. It's a free, video-based coding academy by Black Girls Code in partnership with GoldieBlox. Here, Black girls, young women, and youth of all genders receive tangible, educational, and entertaining tutorials to spark interest in computer science and tech. With fun projects and simple step-by-step lessons, this series encourages you to code along while our expert coders make a game, a song, an animation, a story, and an AI chatbot using Scratch. In these 15-minute-or-less episodes, Code Along reaches millions of girls and provides them with the tech skills and confidence to build brighter futures. Speaking of future innovators — we also chatted with Googlers and toured a Google office space. Learn a new skill, discover a new role model, and Code Along with us.
#howtocode #blackgirlscode #goldieblox #codingtutorial #codealong #scratch
