BTC Challenge

Link to Arduino project book:

Click HERE.

Links to your projects

Post links to your current projects in the comments.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Your goal:

Create a maze with a new sprite.  Every time your sprite touches the side of the maze, it must switch costumes and go back to the beginning.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Goals for the day:

1. Make sure you've finished last week's tutorial project and posted it to last week's blog post.
2. Make a new project this week and post the link to it to this blog post.  Your project must include these things:
1. Delete the cat sprite and create a new sprite.
2. Program the sprite to move around the screen with the arrow keys.
3. Create a second costume for your sprite.
4. Create a blue block somewhere in your background.
5. Program the sprite to change costumes when it bumps into the blue block in your background.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Agenda for the day:
1. "What is computer programming?" discussion
2. Overview of Scratch
3. Create Scratch accounts
4. Go through the basic Scratch tutorial. Follow these steps:

• Title your project "Your Name - Dance Party"
• Click "See Project Page"
• Click "Share Project"
• Highlight the entire http://scratch.mit.edu in your web browser.  Right click it.  Click copy.
• Leave a comment on this post with your name and the link to your project.  To leave your link, right click in the comment box after your name and click "paste."  See my example below.

DMS Programming Mini-Course

• Start Here: http://scratch.mit.edu/
• Scratch is what we will use to write computer programs in this class.  It's very easy to learn, and with it you can code many things from computer games to simple computer animation.
• Once you're comfortable making programs in Scratch, start going through these different code schools in the following order.
• First, go to Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs
• The Khan Academy programming school introduces you to many of the syntax structures and commands that are common to many programming languages. It's a great way to learn how to speak "computer."
• Next, go to Code Academy: http://www.codeacademy.com
• Code Academy is great because it teachers you how to write programs in many popular computer languages, include HTML, JavaScript and Python.  Learn the basics of one language at a time.