Creating Flash Animations April 16, 2008
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Welcome to the 4th marking period! We are going to learn how to use the program Macromedia Flash and continue to create animations.
The first class will be an introduction to the Flash program and what it looks like. You will have an opportunity to try out the different tools, draw shapes, and learn more about the names of the different parts of the Flash window.
You will be expected to complete a worksheet during class time where you will identify and label the parts of the window.
End of 3rd Marking Period April 3, 2008
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Time flies when you work hard! This is the last week of this marking period. All the work must be completed by Friday April 4th. I am grading you from the worksheet that you are completing while working on your Scratch file. If your Scratch file is not 100% ready and tested DO NOT HAND IT IN! We will have time to make any final touches so that work that is handed in is ready to post on the Scratch MIT website.
Wiki Post: please use the worksheet to write your Wiki post, when I approve it, you can post it on the Wiki page. Check with me if you don’t have a login yet, or you don’t know how to log in and join The Computer School space.
Quia Quizzes: all 3 quizzes are posted, you will have until April 9th to complete Quiz #3 because I was late to get it finished.
Using Our WikiSpace March 14, 2008
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Now that we have covered some basic programming concepts, and students have completed Scratch animations or games that illustrate these concepts, I am going to ask that you login and post some tips, tricks, code, ideas, frustrations, successes, or how-to’s on our class wiki page.
Remember to sign any of your posts with your first name and last initial and include your class section (example 6/7A).
Read the first page of the wiki for detailed instructions on posting guidelines.
Programming Concepts-Variables March 6, 2008
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Variables are used in Scratch to store numeric information. You have learned about variables in Math, how they store or represent numbers that are unknown. A simple way to explain this is that variables store numbers that change over time. Think about a score in a game, or is your character has lives or strengths; these are numbers that change depending upon what else is happening in the program. Just like when you solve or balance an equation, if you change x, then y must change.
The example I showed in class was a simple race track with cars moving around and a variable that counted the number of times the car crossed the finish line (the number of laps).
Here are some race examples that students have created to demonstrate the concept.
Messages-Broadcast Command February 25, 2008
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So far we have looked at how sprites react to key presses or to touching other sprites or colors. This is okay if you are communicating with just one sprite, but what about having sprites communicate with each other, or even with the stage? Simple, you can have a sprite broadcast a message to another sprite (or stage).
The broadcast command is found in the control palette. One sprite broadcasts a message at a certain point in the program. You use the When I receive (message) to indicate where and when you want another sprite to do something. Here is a tutorial I found that illustrates the broadcast command. Take a look.
Here are some of the student examples: (Click on the ‘teacher’ sprite to make the dancer sprites start dancing)
Ashley
Shafique
Alex
Gary
More Programming Concepts- Conditional Statements February 11, 2008
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Conditional statements ask a question, then, depending upon the answer, execute a sequence of statements.
IF (specific condition is met) THEN (do this action)
Try out some of these ideas for your Scratch if a condition is met: change sprite size, change sprite visibility, change sprite location, change sprite color, change sprite effect.
