Recent Projects in Young Programmers-811

Animated gif's

Cool animated gif's! Look at them go! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Pong

DrawingProject

This is my first attempt with pens, and Broadcasts, and also my first real project. I hope you like it! Click a color to change the brush to it. Click on the arrow to change the background, and the red to orange button to change the ackground shade. The "X" deletes the drawings, the "+" increases the pen size, and the "-" decreases it. Enjoy! :D Updates: V.1: Black now works; cursor is now more visible; and the pen now moves non-linnear-ly (its not all zigzaggy anymore!)

Creion cu culori

My name is David. I am from Romania and I have 8 years old only. This is my game.

Beginning Scratch 1

I used this project to introduce Scratch programming to a certain young programmer who was six at the time. We also moved the circles to draw different shapes. I did it this way to avoid mentioning the coordinate system. We also explored different pen sizes and colors.

turtle-graphics

A tutorial project that shows you how to draw different shapes including flowers and squirals using just the move, turn, and repeat blocks. This project is for download only and does not do anything online. It is part of the redware lessons for learning Scratch available at www.redware.com/scratch.

fish-2.0

Use your mouse to move the shark around to eat the yellow fish. You get indigestion if you eat a red fish ! This project is part of the redware lesson plan for Scratch which can be used for training purposes in a computer club or classrom. Full notes to help you build and understand this game are available at www.redware.com/scratch/fish.html.

draw

A simple drawing program to help you learn Scratch. Press the green button to start and clear the page and P to put the pen down and up again, C to change colour, and the left and right arrows to change the width of the pen. Please look at the Learning Scratch video at www.redware.com/scratch/draw.html.

dogandcrab

A quick game to copy with two sprites and simple mouse following movement. Use the mouse to follow the crab and watch the crab run away. We have a video tutorial showing how to make this game as part of our lesson plan at www.redware.com/scratch/dogandcrab.html. The elements of making a simple game like this are: 1. Put a green flag contol event on each sprite to set up the poistions at the beginning of the game. Here the dog goes to the middle and the crab is randomly placed on the stage. 2. Add a forever loop on the main control sprite to control movement. In this case the dog follows the mouse. 3. Add a sensing component into the forever loop to work out when things happen. In this case when the dog touches the crab. 4. Do some stuff when the dog touches the crab but also broadcast a message so the other sprites (or the stage) can also react. 5. Add a receive event onto the crab so it runs away when the dog broadcasts a message to say that it has touched the crab. Messaging between sprites is better than lots of sensing on each sprite. 6. Add a background and voila - c'est finis (it is finished). BTW my wife Kathy (42) helped me with this.

batandball

A simple bat and ball project which forms part of the redware lesson plan for learning Scratch. Use the up and down arrows to move the bat and hit the ball. This game needs to be extended to have a score. Add a colour or sprite to the back wall to allow the computer to win and score a point each time you hit the ball. You can view a video on how to make this game (and others) at www.redware.com/scratch/videos/batandball.

throw

THROW helps younger programmers begin to understand angles. Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to line up onto the target and press SPACE to throw. Press the GREEN FLAG to reset into new positions and try again. Notice the direction indicated in the ANGLE variable at the top of the screen which varies from 0 to 360. This implementation is based on SHOOT used by Watt in teaching Logo. Watch out for a new version with better graphics..

onekey

onekey allows young programmers to learn motions by pressing a single key. Press: SPACE to clear. F or UP to go Forwards. B or DOWN to go Back. R or RIGHT to go right. L or LEFT to go left. U for pen up. D for pen down. A square is FRRR FRRR FRRR FRRR and a triangle FRR FRR FRR. Try FRRRRR many times for a star. This is an implementation of one key logo.