Final Project Reflection

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23685265/
During our final project, I chose to make a game that was similar to a maze. However in my game the point was to not touch the walls. If you did, you had to start over. I started by just making the backgrounds and then I worked the sprites into it. I took each task one step at a time and solved each problem one at a time. Every time I would change something in my script I would test it to see if it works. In the end, I really enjoyed this final project.

Final Scratch Project Game

The game that I am making will be similar to a maze. The finish line will be a monkey and the goal is to bring the bananas to the monkey without the bananas touching the forest green walls. Every time the bananas touch the green, you will lose a point and have to go back to the start.

Scores

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23594601/#editor

I remixed this game by making a score. The variable is a way to add a score to the game you're playing. I made it so every time the big fish ate a little fish, the score would increase by 1 point.

Debug it challenges week 2

1. Debug it 1
2. Debug it 2
3. Debug it 3
4. Debug it 4
5. Debug it 5

A debugging strategy that I used was trying different blocks out and testing them right after. I also thought about previous activities we have had and how situations that I've already dealt with were similar to these situations. This made it easier for me to find out what was wrong. I would recommend to someone to trying to debug to stop and just read all the blocks first and think which ones could logically be possibilities to solve the debug activity.

Try it activities

While doing these try it activities, I found some of them to be more difficult then others. I decided to do activities 1,4,and 9. These were challenging but I was able to do it with some help. A strategy I used in helping me with making this work was trying one thing at a time and then testing it afterwards. This was one of the hardest activites so far since we learned how everything works just by trying every option until one of them worked.

Scenes

Both the stage and the sprites can change their appearances. The sprites can change their costumes while the stage can switch backdrops. In the theater they use backdrops to change where the scenes take place and that's what we were doing with the sprites.Other students also used the back drops to switch where the scenes took place. It was hard at first getting used to knowing how to switch backdrops but now I feel comfortable doing it.

Conversations

By using the broadcast block, this made the conversations flow much easier then before. It took more time setting it up though and was very confusing on how to make it work. You would use this block when you are trying to have different characters have a conversation with each other. This block was very helpful in this activity for me even though it was hard to figure out how to work it.