Computer control

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What is…

Start

Stop

Remove toast from toaster

Wait 2 minutes

Put bread into toaster

Push down handle

Sequences – what’s so important?• To understand how to

make a set of instructions to perform a task.

Aim:

START

BK 1

BK 1

BK 1

RT 90

RT 90

Who’s Bad?

STOPLinkto: Moonwalk video

START

BK 1

BK 1 BK 1

RT 90

RT 90

Who’s Bad?

STOP

IF

Linkto: Moonwalk video

Project brief

• Your school’s website manager wants you to create a Pacman type game relating to your school.

• Money at school is tight so your head teacher has asked you to use a free programming software called SCRATCH.

• You will learn all the skills to build an arcade style game and learn how to make simple improvement to the design.

History of computer games

• Computer games are big business these days!• They cost a lot of money to make and market!• The first computer games looked very

different to how they look today…

www.scratch.mit.edu

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Thunk…

If I play chess against the

computer and I lose, who or what

beat me?

How does it all work?

Hardware

Software

Programming scratch

browser

pcschild

The screen where you can see what happens when

you play your game is called the STAGE.

The SCRIPT BANK is where the types of instructions

are stored.

The SPRITES are where you store and select the STAGE and COSTUMES (Back Stage).

SCRIPTS AREA is where you put your instructions (Say

and do)

The SCRIPT BLOCKS are where the instructions of

what your SPRITES can do!