Coding with Scratch – Create Fantastic DrivingGames will take you from Scratch basics through to creating yourown fantastic driving games in easy steps. Each game comes with challenges totake you to the next level of coding. Even includes mods to make your games moreexciting. Have fun and amaze your friends and family! You’ll learn how to:
 
Use code to make a series of driving games including parking,racing, scrolling and two-player games.
 
Design your own game levels, cars and tracks.
 
Use variables to keep the score and to store the speed in yourgames.
 
Add sounds and create your own code blocks and functions.
 
To create the games in this book, children will need a desktopcomputer or a laptop. The games require a proper keyboard so will not work wellon a tablet or iPad. It is recommended that children should be supervised whenusing the internet, especially when using a new website.
 
 This edition is in UK English.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Max Wainewrightis a very experienced computing teacher and has taught in the UK and inSingapore. Max has worked with national government agencies and local councilsto support and inspect technology in schools. He teaches coding part-time in aLondon primary school, and runs an innovation group supporting other localschools. Max has a Computer Science degree and has significant experience ofworking in the EdTech industry. He co-founded one of the most successful smallUK EdTech companies, and developed award-winning software that has been used byover 90% of UK primary schools. He has provided his expertise as an EducationalSoftware consultant for major companies including Discovery and LEGO. Max haswritten dozens of books teaching kids to code. Many of these are top-sellers,reaching 100,000s of kids, and have been translated into over 20 languages.