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What are computational thinking skills?

These are the set of skills that convert complex, messy, partially-defined, real world problems into a form that a mind-less computer can tackle without further assistance from a human. (BCS, 2014)

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Day 3 - Multiplication game (May 2013)

Our plan for this session:
  • Create a game based on answering multiplication facts and beating the clock.
  • 2 sprites (actors)
  • 4 backgrounds (backdrops)
    • Answer 10 multiplication questions in 100 seconds.
    • The final score will be calculated like so:                                                 Time remaining X Correct answers
    • Score 500 points or more to win.
  • This project makes much greater use of variables, operators and graphic effects and is much more challenging as a result.
    Quizmaster (Monster) scripts

















    Time-keeper (Computer) scripts














    Stage scripts







    Stage backgrounds

    Day 2 - Creating different costumes of sprites | Walking & Jumping | Dialogue | Scratch 2.0 (May 2013)

    > Creating sprites, with different costumes
    Credit: shallwelearn.com & Jessica Chiang

    Here is short presentation of the images below.
    Here is a short but very useful video on this lesson.
    And here is a very quick follow-up!





    > Making sprites walk in two directions and making them jump

    > Dialogue
    Choose your own sprites and background.
    Write a similar script for the second sprite, that answers the questions of this sprite.

    Day 1 - Broken Out! (May 2013)

    Watch the presentation from our 1st session here.

    One of today's projects:

    Script for the ball - the shape and colour can customised to your own taste.

















    Script for the paddle - the shape and colour can be customised to your own taste.













    Script for stage






    The different backgrounds needed for the stage - these can all be customised to your own taste.














    Credit: coderdojomidwest.com