Hi everyone,
Good to see everyone again this week
This week we did a Greeting Card, I did a birthday card but some of you did Thank You Cards and New Dog Cards!
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Here are this weeks notes in cda-s8-week 3-greetingcard.pdf
See you Next Week
Martha
Julie Ruaidhrí and Eoin
Hello everyone,
Thank you all for coming again this week. Today we started looking at the Scratch 3. We had some small issues saving but hopefully all these little issues will get sorted with updates over the next couple of weeks.
This week we did a simple Piano so we could familiarise ourselves with it.
We only had to draw two keys, and then could duplicate these and change the names. The same applied to the code. The code is the same for each key apart from one small change so the note is the appropriate for the key.
REMEMBER! You need to make four changes each time you duplicate:
Change the name of the spite to the next Note
Change the name of the TWO costumes
Change the NOTE played
Here are notes from this week in PDF cda-s8-week-2-19-piano.pdf
Martha
Julie, Ruaidhrí and Eoin
For our first day back in 2019 we decided to do a simple Paper folding program.
It doesn’t really fold paper though, it just shows you how thick the paper gets when you keep folding it in half! It will get very thick quite quickly!
So we Googled, how thick is a sheet of Paper and we got the number 0.1mm, so quite thin really!
We then Googled a list of items and their heights, so we could write out a message when we reached that height, this was the list we came up with [and a guess of how many folds it would take]:
In order to keep track of how many folds we have done and what height the paper has reached we needed a few variables:
We store the number of folds, and the height in mm, meters and kilometers.
We then made sure that they were all set to the correct value when the Green Flag was clicked.
The only one that is not zero is the height in mm which we set the thickness of paper 0.1
Now we can get coding.
We used the Up and Down arrows to fold/unfold the Paper, this would increase/decrease the number of folds and the mm height and then Broadcast to the code that checked everything else.
The code that does the checking needs a few IF’s to work out what to do. First of all though it needs to calculate the height in Metres and Kilometres as well.
We used the number of folds to work out if we should be checking the mm, metre or km variable. All we did when we got to a particular height was to Say something on the Screen, but you could do anything you want at these points in the code, maybe show a different sprite or make a sound or something.
This is the code that checked the mm and metre variables
and this is the code that checked the metre and km variables
And if anyone wants the full project, it is availabe on the scratch.mit.edu web site:
User: cdexplorers1819
Password: exploreres1819
Project: Doubling
Here are photos from our Christmas party and Show & Tell day at CoderDojo Athenry on 08 December 2018.
It was fantastic to see the things that our young people had created.
We are very grateful to our supporters in the community around Athenry:
And of course, we are eternally grateful to our wonderful mentors, and to the parents who come along with their children every week. Thank you!
Hi everybody,
our drawing program. We made good use of costumes this week to make it look like we were dipping our paint brush in each of the different colours.
We also used a variable similarly to how we used in the Piano Game we made. We made it into a slider and then code select the Pen Size we wanted.
Here are the notes in PDF. CDA-S7-Week_08-Paint.PDF
Martha
Hi everyone,
Thank you all for coming on Saturday. A lot of us had to fit into the Advancers Room but we managed. We should be back to our own room next. Thanks to Oliver and his crew for moving to another room for us.
This week we did a new game, How fast can you Type? This week we used Backgrounds as Sprites. Just to mix it up!
We used a variable as our Timer, as we did with our Maths Guessing Game!
Full notes from today are here in PDF CDA-S7-Week 7-How fast can you Type.pdf
And my own game from today is up on the scratch.mit.edu website.
See you all next week.
Martha
Julie and Ruaidhrí
Hello Everyone,
Great to see you all on Saturday and welcome to our new members.
We made a slight departure from the games we have done in previous weeks. This weeks game was a mathematical Guessing Game.
We only had one sprite and one large block of code. We had to create variables and figure out all the possible situations that could occur when a guess was made.
Here are the notes in PDF form from our Week 6 Session. CDA-S7-Week_06-GuessNumbers.pdf
I have also uploaded the game to the Scratch Website in our Explorers Account so you can see the full working game.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for coming Saturday even though the weather was dreadful.
This week, I helped Bo Peep found her sheep! Some of you did the same and some used ideas like Minecraft Steve finding Iron Ore and Diamonds, Knights finding dragons or a Princess finding flowers.
Before we even started our game this week we talked a little bit about File Management and about the importance of keeping your files somewhere you can access them quickly and giving them a meaningful name.
So to this end, we all created a folder where we will be keeping our files in the future and within that we had a sub folder for this weeks files.
We started our game by drawing our background on our stage:
Unfortunately, due to internet problems we could not search the internet for images for our Sprites, but we could still use the sprites from the Scratch Library.
This week, we decided to move our main sprite using the arrow keys. For this we had to learn a small bit about the X and Y axis and I gave you a little tip on how to remember which is which!
Hope you all enjoyed this week, aee you next week when we will be starting a new game!
Here are the notes for this weeks session in PDF CDA-S7-Week_05-BoBeep.pdf
Martha
Julie, Ruaidhrí and Eoin
Hi everyone,
Thank you do everyone you came along on such a lovely day on Saturday, hope you all got to go outside when you went home and enjoyed the weather.
This week, we improved on our game from last week.
Most games reward us for achievements (Gaining:Scores/Money/Health) and penalise us for making mistakes (Losing:Lives, Health, Money)
To this we had to create a Variable. Remember my box with the blocks. A variable holds information for you that you can use again. Remember to always give it a name that is meaningful….
Everything we have learned so far we will be using in ,most of our games we will make in future sessions. Don’t worry if you didn’t understand everything, we will be going over it again and again.
Have fun with the code you have done. Maybe try making another game!
Here are the notes from last week in PDF CDA-S7-Week_04-FirstGame-Part2.pdf
See you all next week
Martha & Julie, Ruaidhrí and Eoin
Hi everyone!
Wow! what a fantastic turnout on Saturday again, 79 ninjas in the room! plus a few adults!
I hope you had a good time, I know that I really enjoyed it. There was a really great atmosphere and energy in the room.
A special thank you to Mentor Julia for getting 14 loaner laptops working for us this week, so that everyone that wanted to participate, could. Another thank you to the other Mentors in the room, Eoin and Ruaidhrí, it makes my job easy when they can get around the room and help out when needed. You are doing a great job.
One of the first things we must do before we start anything is make a plan.
We quickly learn when we begin our coding that it is very important to test our code as we go along. Making mistakes is good, but we must learn from them by spotting them (testing) and fixing them.
I am attaching my notes in PDF for you. CDA-S7 Week_03-FeedingtheFish.pdf
We will continue to add to the game next week but don’t worry if you weren’t here this week, I will have a copy of the game so that you can join in.
See you all nest week!
Martha and the Explorers Mentors, Julia, Eoin and Ruaidhrí
CoderDojo Athenry 