In this Code Along Jr. episode, our host Kalani shows you how to animate your name! 💥 Learn to make the letters of your name whirl, glide up and down, change colors, move around the screen, and disappear and reappear — all with sound and changing backdrops! You’ll also learn to make your sprites communicate to perform your animation.
Skip to the good stuff:
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Choose backdrop
01:15 Add letters of your name
01:48 Add an event block to your first letter to make it whirl
02:50 Make your sprites communicate with each other
03:54 Make your second letter glide up and down
04:55 Add broadcast blocks to start your third letter
06:06 Change the color of your third letter, add a phrase to it, and change backdrop
08:03 Add broadcast blocks to start your fourth letter
08:26 Add sound to your fourth letter
10:20 Make your fifth letter disappear and reappear
10:46 Make your sixth letter move around
11:10 Test animation
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.
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