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Tynker Week 5

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In my first activity I did an English Grammar for Antonyms. Six kids were lined up holding a word like “Sparse”, “Guilty”, “Temporary”, etc. The background/stage would be a river and on the other side of the river, opposites, or antonyms of those words would be there. You’d drag the word that one of the people was holding to the antonym that goes with it. The second activity I did was one with baking a cake with fraction measurements. I would have to bake a cake with a recipe, but translate the fraction into a decimal.

Coding blocks helped me learn the subjects as well. The “Say” and “Ask” blocks allowed me to memorize the facts as I was building the mini-game and helped me learn new coding techniques too!

I learned how to use the “Ask”, “When recieved _”, “Broadcast” blocks, and I learned how to make all different kinds of variables.

Quizlet Project

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I tried to make my Tynker questionnaire Health related and make is fun to play (like adding sound effects, “animation”, and when whoever’s playing gets the question right, the character would say a message to them).

In my Health “quiz”, I asked simple questions that we learned last quarter. There were questions from alcohol and drug usage to human development during adolescence.

There is one quiz that I like which was created by Ariella (go check out her blog). I like how she gave a goal to you to get 10/10 points on the quiz. Her character is really cute, but gives thoughtful questions and every time you get it right, the character would smile. I will give you a frown if you get a question wrong.

About Me Project

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One of the activities I did on Tynker Programming 201 was trying to get Gus (the astronaut) to go about the space by using the coding blocks. I like how Tynker is super accessible and very easy to navigate everything. It makes coding very enjoyable to learn. Coding in general was (and kind of still is) very difficult for me to learn. Something about putting blocks in a certain order to make something happen is very confusing for me. With Tynker, I learned how to change a person’s costume by tapping them. Here’s the code: When actor is touched, change costume.

My “About Me” project has a character that looks like me runs with a dog that looks like my dog, Hannah, on a field near my home. Once I click my character, it starts to play cheery music because when people see my in-person, I’m usually smiling. My character has a text bubble pop up saying “I’ve been doing ballet for 7 years.” which is true. While I’m “talking” I start gliding across the screen. Basically, when I tap my character, music starts to play, I say something, and I glide on the screen. One block I use a lot is the “When character is touched” block. I tried to incorporate my moving “x and y” block that I learned from Programming 201.