Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Surprise Button: Drum


The drum was simple to do. We followed the way the tutorial was done and used it as a guide. Everytime the drum is clicked it changes colours and looks like a disco ball changing colour. There weren't any difficulties in this tutorial.

Glide: Green Rhino


The rhino was pretty simple to do. All we had to do copy and paste the blue columns and change the time. When the space key is pressed the rhino glides around the computer screen. It pretty much looks like it is jumping around or floating like it is on space.

Key moves: Duck


The duck was simple but it took some time. When the arrows are pressed it goes around in those directions. After we did the first directions using the up arrow key we decided to copy and paste it and then just change the directions so it would be easier. This didnt take long and it made it easier for us to finish it.

Dance Twist: Dancer


The dancer was also a difficult tutorial. We had difficulty figuring out what time should be left for the dancer to start and stop dancing. Everytime the w key is pressed the dancer begins to dance and everytime you press it she starts dancing again.

Moving Animation: Dragon



The dragon was very difficult. It took a while to get it to change costumes properly. We also had difficulty figuring out how to make it move across the screen quickly and change into different costumes properly. It still takes a while to move across the screen but we decided to leave it because it is easier for it to change costumes.

Change Colour: Zebra


The zebra was also a simple tutorial. We

did have difficulties figuring out hwo to change the colours though but we then asked for help and we learn't how to do it. When you press the space key the zebra changes colours. You continue to change the space key and the zebra changes different colours non stop.

Say something: Monkey


This is our image of the monkey. This tutorial was the most simple tutorial we have done. When the monkey is clicked it will automatically say " Hi my name is bubbles". There weren't any difficulties encountered while completing this activity.

Interactive whirl: starfish


This is the image of the starfish. When the green flag is clicked you move the mouse around the computer screen and the starfish will start to whirl around the computer screen. This continues to happen when you move your mouse around the computer screen. You can stop it by pressing the stop button and it should freeze and go back to how it started.

Follow the mouse: Crab


This is the image of the crab. When the green flag is pressed you move the mouse a

round and the crab follows it. This was simple we followed the wa the tutorial was set out and that made it more simple. The crab continouesly moves around the computer until the stop button is pressed. There were no problems encountered with this tutorial.

Animate it: Butterfly


This is how our butterfly works.

When you press the green flag it flaps it wings. This was a very simple tutuorial that we chose. It didnt take long but we did use alot of time cutting and pasting items from the forever loop.

Tutorials: 19.11.08

Today sam and i finalised every scratch challange we did.

We did the following:

Animatie it: butterfly
Follow the mouse: Crab
Interactive whirl: starfish
Say something: monkey
Change colour: Zebra
MOving animation: Dragon
Dance twist: Dancer
Key moves: Duck
Glide: green rhino
Surprise button: Drum

I did the first 5 and sam did the last 5. I had many difficulties as to figuring out how everything worked. I was constantly struggling with putting different components in the forever loop. We spent 3 lessons doing the following and we didnt have enough time to work on our blog so time management was another problem for us.

I will post images of the tutorials we did on seperate blogs.