CS 110: Intro to Computer Science Starting to Program From Scratch Core Issue Programming Concepts scratch is a new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Supporting Issues Programming Logic Prepared by Fred Annexstein University of Cincinnati Some rights reserved 007 1
Beginning Programming Download Scratch! from scratch. mit. edu 2
The Scratch Interpreted Environment 8 Categories of Programming Objects 4
Scratch Programming Elements Looks: Control: Sound: 5
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Boolean Expressions and Boolean connectives Sensing: Numbers: 7
Conditionals: If then else statements: 8
Basic Repetition: Loops 9
Using Program Variables 10
Programming the Movement of a Sprite 11
Programming the Movement Multiple Sprites: Threads 12
Programming Events 13
Game Programming: “Knock the Kitty in Hole” Basic Design: 1. Start the game with 0 score and pick random location at top to drop the Kitty 2. Use a touching mouse? sensing event to grab kitty and knock into hole. 3. Use a touching hole? sensing event to add to score and drop another kitty. 14
Game Programming: “Knock the Kitty in Can” 15
Project to turn in: Modify the Game above to include another sprite into the action. Turn in your project by saving the scratch program and uploading to Bb. 16