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ITEC Winter 2010 1
An intro to programming concepts with Scratch
Quick intro for college citizens.George Stockman
MSU CSE
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A 10-minute PR clip
sallyAndHorse.sb
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What can we do with Scratch?
Learn some computing concepts. Learn some practical algorithms. Have fun with Scratch creating
stories, games, art. We are teaching Scratch after
school to middle school kids with the goal of increasing interest in STEM.
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Start scratch and let’s go!
Click on the cat icon If not on desktop, download
from www.scratch.mit.edu Scratch programming
environment comes up quickly
We will first do simple ops
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Scratch environment Stage is at upper right (where actors act
and information is displayed) Sprite is another name for actor (object). Instruction menus/panel at left
(instructions for the actors) A script is another name for program or
method; a script tells the actor what to do.
Programming panel in center; here is where we construct scripts for the sprites
(Sprites are objects; their scripts are methods or behaviors.)
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We start with the cat sprite
We will learn to use other sprites and many sprites
LATER. Now we use the cat as our only actor.
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The LOOKS menu
Has operations for setting the color, size, and visibility of a
sprite. Constumes will be used LATER
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The “hello” script (program)
Double click on the “say hello” lego block Check your sprite behavior at the right Then double click “say hello for 2 secs”
Your very first Scratch program!
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Try some other looks operations (double click items)
Change color effect by 25 Change color effect by 25 again Hide Show Change size by 10 Change size by 10 again Set size to 100%
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Let’s write a script to Say “hello” for 2 seconds Then change color by 25 Then think “Hmm..” for 4 seconds Then change color by 75 Then change size by 200
Drag the instructions from the menu to the center panel. Connect them into a single block. Edit the parameters to get the numbers we want.
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Our script (program)
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The WAIT instruction
is needed to slow down the acting so we can see or hear it properly (computers are too fast sometimes)
Get the wait instruction from the CONTROL menu. Please ignore the other menu options at this time.
Insert a wait in our looks script
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3 second pause between changing color and size
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The MOTION menu
How to locate and orient a sprite; position and angle;
moving a sprite
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Position on the stage
Using the Looks menu, shrink our cat to 25%.
Click on the Motion menu.
Click to check the box for x-position and y-position
Drag your cat around and note its x-y position.
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Other instructions
goto x,y glide to x,y Move N steps Set direction
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The “glide-to” instruction
Drag the “glide-to” instruction into your script panel.
Edit in some coordinate values and double click to see where your sprites goes.
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The SENSING menu
Getting information from the user
or some other machine
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Use the SENSING menu1)Ask the user for age; 2) user types in
age;
3) result stored in “answer”
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User types “13” and the script stores the answer
“answer” is a Special Scratch variable
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OUTPUT: Giving the user information with say answer
Say is in Looks menu; drag “answer” from Sensing menu; click
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Making an “age variable”1) Click Variables menu; 2) click “Make a variable”
3) Type in “age” and click OK
Do you want to display for all sprites or just one?
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We have an “age variable”Displaying variable “age”Operations for “age”
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We can join text and a number to say things
Build this instruction from the parts above it.
From Looks
From OperatorsFrom Sensing
Make the join
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Storing a value in a variable; then saying it to the user
1) Set from Variables menu; 2) Say from Looks menu; 3) Join from the Operators menu joins your text with the “answer”
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A first “program” for 6th grade
The variable V now stores the computed average of A and B
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Changing costumes
Another way to change the appearance of a sprite.
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Making a new costume
1) Get bat2-a sprite from the “sprite box”.
2) Click on sprite
3) Click on “Costumes”
4) Click on “Import”
5) Now get bat-2b sprite from the sprite box
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Use a loop to make the bat fly!
1) When and repeat from Control menu and 2) next costume from Looks menu.
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Changing coordinates
We can randomly set the location of the bat so it will “flutter”.
Set X to a random number Set Y to a random number Move the bat to location (X,Y) Of course, the bat should remain
on stage!
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Using pick random
Click the stop sign at the stage upper right to stop the forever loop.
Do we need a wait in the loop? Try it to see the change in flying.
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Multiple interactive bat flight
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Adding a background
Click on the Stage icon at lower right
Click on Backgrounds
Click on bat icon (Sprite1)
Click on Scripts
FLY AGAIN!
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Controlling the bat’s direction Let’s create multiple scripts. Click space bar for random moves Click right arrow to move right Click left arrow to move left The bat will behave differently
depending upon which key is typed! (So, could a gamer catch the bat?)
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On to multimedia, games, stories
Detecting events; sending messages;
using music and audio;
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See stock example: Mad Lib
Explore the available examples; Mad Lib under
stories;Study message sending;
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Study Break Dance
Music and dance example;Messaging;
Use of stock music and costumes
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Digitizing your own audio
Use din example
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Composing with drum beats
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Jodi jumps on the drum
Story teller script
Jodi’s script
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Recording from a mike (or an iPod or other music player)
1. Plug in microphone
2. Pick the speaker sprite
3. Click “Sounds”
4. Click “Record”
5. Click red button and speak
6. Click square button to stop
7. Click triangle to hear it
8. Click “OK” if it’s OK
9. Use name of sound in a play-sound instruction
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Where does all this lead?
Definitely engaging for grades 6,7,8.Does it increase STEM interest of our
kids?Does it motivate college computing
classes?Does Scratch make a smarter Lego
bot?