Tag Archives: Scratch Advanced

Advancers – week 6 (2023 – 2024)

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Platformer Game

This week we created a platform game, the objectives of the game is to get as much milk as possible. But the more milk you get the smaller the platforms get and the smaller the milk gets.

If you end up at the bottom of the screen, you will lose a live and start at the top of the screen again.

You can use “Boosts” using the space key to jump up to higher platforms, but beware, you only get a few boosts, but getting milk will also give you 2 more boosts.

And remember, as always (well mostly always!) I have uploaded this to the Scratch web site, you can use the following URL to access it:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/930315522/

If you want to Sign In to the Scratch Website you can use the following credentials:

Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers

Don’t forget the uppercase A on the password.

Advancers – Week 5 (2023-2024)

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Car Racing Game (RoadRacing)

This week we created a Car Racing game, the object is to get as much score as possible by dodging all the other cars and trucks on the road.

The finished project is available on the Scratch Website:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/926443877/

If you want to SignInand edit any of the projects you can use the following credentials:

Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers

Note: The password has an uppercase “A” at the beginning.

Advancers – Week 1 (2023-2024)

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Welcome back everyone.

We started off this year with the Spirals Project.

We could specify how many lines the code should draw, how many sides the Spiral should have and then finally how many extra degrees we should turn before drawing the next line.

I have uploaded 2 versions of this project to the Scratch Website, you can get all the code and also play with them online.

ClassVersion-Spirals – This is the one we ended up with where it creates the early universe.
ClassVersion-SingleSpiral – This is the one that we started with, where you can choose the different values.

Go to:

https://www.scratch.mit.edu//

And then you can sign in with the following details, don’t forget the uppercase “A” on the password:

Username : AthenryAdvancers
Password : Advancers

Once you are connected you can go to “My Stuff” and then select the 2023-2024 Studio.

Scratch Advanced – Week 1 – Calculator.

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Hi all and welcome back to what we hope will be an exciting year in Coder Dojo Athenry.

We will be using Scratch 2 this year. So the first thing that we need to do is install it.

There are two Applications that you need to install:

1. AdobeAir

2. Scratch2

I will have all the Versions that I can find on USB, which should cover both Windows and Mac. I have installed the Windows version, so I know that one works. I won’t have tested the Mac version though.

Scratch2 introduces the idea of making your own Blocks of code that you can then use in your programs. So for the first week we are going to try these out and see how they can help us write Code once but use it many times.

And for that we need a project to work on – A Calculator.

  • We will learn about Functions (Code Blocks in Scratch2)
  • We will learn about passing information into Functions

We are going to design and build a fully functioning Calculator that can Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide. If you get really adventurous you can add some other functions as well – percentages maybe?

Like you I haven’t written it yet, so it going to be a bit scary tomorrow as we have to make it all up as we go along, but hey, you’re the advanced crowd, and should be able to handle that!

Once we have a fully working version I will update this blog with the full details of how and why we did what we did.

If we can get anything like the following picture, I think we are definitely Advanced…

Calculator

Everything that you see on this calculator is perfectly possible in Scratch2, we will start with the four basic options of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.