Puzzles Activity

I worked on Puzzles 1, 3, and 9.  My strategy for solving the puzzles was watching the given tutorials and using blocks that I am familiar with to solve the puzzles.  Puzzle 3 helped me think about my game project.

Name Project

Scenes Activity

Both the stage and sprites can be chosen or drawn.  You initialize sprites in a scene by using blocks to tell them what to do.  Some other types of projects that you would use scene changes are plays and skits.  My classmates used backdrops in their projects by changing the backgrounds three or four times and having the script walk through them.

Penguin Joke Project

Broadcast is using the broadcast blocks to make the scripts respond to what other scripts are saying to them when they receive the broadcast.  You would use timing and broadcasting in a project when you are creating a project that involves two or more scripts talking to each other.

Make A Block

"Make A Block" is when you use previous blocks to make a script, and then to shorten the script, you can define it as one block.  You might use "Make A Block" when you are making a complex project and you are using  a lot of different blocks.  By defining several blocks as one would, you would make your project's scripts less complicated.

Reflect

After completing all of these debug it activities, I have come up with some strategies.  I first play the program to see the problem to see if I can find an immediate and easy fix.  If I can't then I look through the scripts and try to find logical blocks that could fix the problem.  I also sometimes rearrange the order of the blocks to see if that fixes the problem.  I would help someone else learn how to debug a project by telling them these strategies.  However, if these strategies don't help, then I could also help them myself.

Debug It! 5

To solve the fifth and final debug it problem, I set the "say" block to say "Meow, Meow, Meow!" and put the "sound" block to make the meow sound inside the "repeat" block.  I set the repeat block to repeat 3 times.

Debug it! 4

To solve this debug it problem, I added the "set rotation style" block to left-right.

Debug it! 3

For the third debug it problem, I added the "wait" block between each turn 90 degrees block.

Debug It!2

For the second debug problem, I repeated the first steps so that the Scratch cat would go to the left side, say something about it, go the right side (until he is touching the other script) and say something about the right side.

Debug It! 1

For the first debug it problem, I only had to add the "when" block to allow Gobo to also dance.

10 Blocks Challenge

I really liked completing the 10 blocks challenge.  This activity really helped me learn Scratch because I learned more blocks that I could use and got more comfortable using previous blocks.  The 10 block restraint impacted my ideas by making me think of more creative ideas.

Ways to Move

For our second creation in scratch, we used three different techniques to make our sprites move.

Watch Me Dance!

For our first creation in Scratch we learned how to make sprites dance.  One thing that was surprising about this activity was how easy it was to figure out.  It felt good to be led by the step-by-step through the activity because that way I knew what I was doing.  I like having more structure at the beginning when we start something new so I have a foundation.  I like having more freedom towards the end (in the final project).  I feel most creative when I can choose the background, sprites, and costumes for my game in Scratch.

Hour of Code

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