Ms. R’s Computer Class

By now you are all well into designing and building your Dreamhouse. You should have written procedures and are testing that they work (no errors!!) and thinking about the extra things you can add to your house and landscape. Here is a link to some of the Dreamhouses created by students in 2009. Take a [...]

Variables are used to store information. You know about variables from science class and math class. Sometimes a variable is something you need to find the answer for (an unknown number for example), and sometimes a variable might be something in your experiment that you change each time you do the experiment. In programming a [...]

Any sprite can send and respond to silent messages sent behind the scenes. This allows us to have one sprite alert one or more sprites about something How Does It Work? A sprite sends a “message” out for another sprite to receive and respond to. The message isn’t sent to a particular sprite, instead it [...]

There are several great ways to use the Ask and Answer blocks in Scratch such as creating a Quiz where the “user” can type in the answers. The ask script allows for the user to type an answer using the keyboard. Take a look at some of these student examples to see how you can [...]

In programming, conditional statements check to see if something (a condition) is true, then if it is, the code underneath it will run. In this assignment we will use a conditional statement to check to see if the Sprite is in a certain location and then if it is you will program something to happen [...]