Hi everyone,

You all did great work on Saturday, there was some quite complex thinking to be done to figure it out but you did great!

1. the player picks a level of difficulty and the computer chooses 2 random numbers to add (subtract or multiply- whichever you choose!) together and show the numbers to the player. Fr this we needed 2 SPRITES and 4 VARIABLES called SCORE, LEVEL, NUMBER1 and NUMBER2 as well as 2 BACKDROPS. 
2. The player then has to enter an answer to the equation and the computer tells them whether they are wrong or right. 
3. We repeated the ask/answer questions 5 or 10 times. Can you figure out where the REPEAT loop fits?
4. We also had a second sprite who reacted positively to correct answers BROADCAST and negatively to wrong answers BROADCAST. You can use whatever sprites you like and change their look whatever way you like. One coder added a puppy as their second and had him bark whenever an answer was correct. 
5. After all the questions were asked we had the 1st Sprite SAY – Game Over! and BROADCAST Game over so that the backdrop changed and music played. There are two ways to change the backdrop- see below!

Can you improve our game??! Can you figure out how to subtract or multiply instead of add? Can you get the computer to add three numbers together or give the user 3 level options like: easy, medium or hard? The notes for the Maths Game are here: CDA-S9-Week_4_20-MathsGame.pdf

and here is a link to the game

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/367754778/embed

See you all in two weeks, enjoy the mid term break!

Martha

Julie, Ruaidhrí, Eoin and Iseult

We had a great day in Scratch Beginners on Saturday! We created a project in which the Sprites communicated with each other to tell some sort of a story or bad joke, Like I did!

Timing was very important, each sprite had to wait for the other sprite to have their say.

Here are the notes from this week CDA-S9-Week-3-StoryTelling.pdf

We are going to do a great Maths Game this Saturday so we look forward to seeing all there.

Martha

Ruaidhri, Julie, Iseult and Eoin

Hi everyone

This week we finished our game from last week, Breakout!

Now there were a lot of complex ideas, rotations, degrees and we created two variables.

Here are the notes in PDF from CDA-S8_Week 1_20-Breakout.pdf

If you want to upload your own game, log in with the following details on http://www.scratch.mit.edu

Username: cdathenry1920

PSW athenry1920

Here is a link to the finished game that I have uploaded to the scratch website

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/362453265

Thank you so much to Eoin you led the session on Saturday, I think you all enjoyed it. I think you will agree that our two Black Belt Mentors did really well leading their first session. So thank you Ruaidhrí and Eoin

Eoin did a Christmas Scene with you. Here a some screenshots of the code.

See you all on Saturday and Remember bring your own drinks!

Martha

Iseult, Julie, Ruaidhrí and Eoin

Hello Everyone,

Great to see you all on Saturday.

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 this weeks session CDA-S8-Week_09-GuessNumbers.pdf

Martha

Iseult, Julie, Ruaidhrí and Eoin

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