All posts by amccausland25

My Last Scratch Project

This is my final project. I also did it on Scratch. This is my only project that isn’t a game. It is sort of an animation. It is of a dragon flying past rainbows and clouds. It isn’t to exiting but it might be the most coding I have done. I know, I am not a good coder.

Even though I am not a good coder these four projects have still made me a better coder. I can probably make my own  very simple game if I tried. If I ever do this again I will try to make my own with out following the tutorial. Now on to the game. Here it is!

I know,it’s silly but do you like it? Hope you do!

My third project!

So this is my third project. I decided to make it scratch again because I could customize it more. It is harder to customize with Tynker since it basically does it all for you.

I wanted to do a pong game but I also wanted it to be original and not just  with a ball. I was scrolling through characters when I saw the wizard. It was perfect for a medieval/fantasy pong game.  I couldn’t find a cartoon background but this will do. I thought the wand was all most perfect since it is a line. The only thing wrong with it is that it has electricity that effects the wizard.

Overall I am pretty proud of this game. I customized more than last time and it’s pretty cool. Try it out!

Hoped you liked it!!!!!

My Ignite about me

This is my ignite project. An ignite project is a 20 slide slideshow. The slides have to move on their own after 15 seconds. Since this is our first time doing an ignite it only has 7 slides and is only 90 seconds.

We have to do our ignite about us. At first I didn’t know what to do mine about. Mr Casal started saying that we could do it about a big thing in our life. I thought of the biggest thing in my life. I decided to do mine about my big move from London to Scarsdale.

I was pretty nervous. I don’t have the video but I do have my slideshow.

Hope you enjoyed!!

My second project

This is my second project. This time my project is on Scratch so it is a little different. I customized it a bit after completing the tutorial so it was different. I made the back round change when you click it. If you click the person it will say “Hi I am Jackie and I love dress up.”  It will also make the pieces of clothing say what they are when you click them. The shirt, you learned how to changed its color in the tutorial so I didn’t change that.

It’s a bit more complex then the first project since I added things but I can still improve. Since I have two more projects to do I will probably do two more scratch since I can get more creative with the tutorial. Overall I think it was a good project but I can do better still.

Here is my second project-

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I hope you like it!!!!

My first project!

This is my first project on Tynker. It is quite simple and easy but I still like it.  I followed the tutorial so it was pretty easy as the tutorial had every step and I just had to follow them.  I used the original characters and back round to make it easier and so I didn’t really have to make it a different theme even though I probably could have.

Next project I will probably try to make my project more complex and fun. I will also probably use scratch instead so I have a verity of projects and I don’t have to worry about not doing a scratch project at the last minute. I also will try to do one every week since it is due soon.

If you click the characters it resets their dance moves!

I hope you enjoy my project!

Should we be more focused on under water exploration or space exploration debate

When we started we had to pick a debate project. My group (Caitlyn, Kevin, Sam and I) was the first picked and we chose should we be more focused on underwater exploration or space exploration?

We focused on researching. At first I thought we should explore underwater. I soon changed my mind. When we started to prepare for our first debate everybody wanted to be on space side. Sam wasn’t there so we all researched space.

When we started practicing debating we switched around a lot though Sam was always on oceans side. When it came to our first finale debate it was me and Caitlyn against Kevin and Sam.

The first time we debated there wasn’t a camera so we don’t have a video. Some of our feedback was be louder, be more passionate, your first reason doesn’t make sense, more rebuttals etc.

We had a lot to work on…

Since some of our feedback was we needed better rebuttals we did some research. It took a lot of time but eventually we had better rebuttals for all of their reasons.

We only had time to practice once and it didn’t go well. We kept getting distracted and we didn’t even finish.

Here is our debate-

I think I was a little nervous and also fiddled a lot. Also Sam had done his first two reasons before we did our first. Overall I think it was a success!

Rube Goldberg #6

Now we were at Caitlyn’s house. It was good because we got another time to meet before the project was due but bad because we had to rebuild most of the Rube Goldberg project.

We did and we used finished the project by using plastic water bottles and toilet paper to finish it up. Finally we could start filming. It was frustrating because it usually failed at the domino part so we had to rebuild them over and over again.

We finally got a success! except it wasn’t a very good video so we decided to film another success. A few tries later and we had done it. Barbara wasn’t here because she was sick but she did the editing. Our Rube Goldberg was done!

Here is my video:


Hope you enjoyed!

 

 

Rube Goldberg #5

We had almost finished building the project. It was frustrating since all the dominoes kept falling down but we did it. Almost. It was at a corner and we didn’t know what to do. Barbara and I had to go soon so Hana said she would finish it.

We had already done a lot. A marble will go down a PVC pipe which will fall down a wooden marble track set which will send the marble down the plastic tracks knocking into a domino trail that  hits a train that goes down train tracks to hit a bottle of something.

We had reached that far with building, on our plan it said the bottle hit toilet paper that hit another bottle that hit a container of candy which dumps the candy in the jar of candy. Hana promised she would try to film it but I was still worried.

 

Rube Goldberg #4

After planning we had to start building. We had already built a lot so we started adding. Then Hana’s dad came and said maybe we should put all the steps onto boxes. We followed the advice but that meant we had to start rebuilding.

So we started rebuilding again. This time it was harder because it meant we had to stack boxes so they were equal to each other. It was not exactly equal so we stacked mini plastic coins on top of each other to make it even. It was hard but eventually we had made a lot of progress.

We started thinking about a zipline again but we didn’t know how to do it without taking the paint off the wall. We tried using a cardboard box but it kept falling over when we let the thing go down. We again we knew it would be very hard to do so we just gave up on the idea.

Finishing the Rube Goldberg plan

This time Barbara, Hana and I (Caitlyn couldn’t come) were at my house. We were finishing the plan that was due on Wednesday. We thought we would use train tracks after the plastic.

Then we were stuck. We couldn’t think of anything and were getting a little stressed. After a lot of stressful thinking we thought of maybe doing toilet paper but that wouldn’t be strong enough to push the cup of candy plus we wouldn’t have enough steps. So we thought and pondered.

Since we were having a sleepover Hana had her wash bags. Suddenly we realized. What if we used bottles to knock over the toilet paper which knocks over another bottle which hits a cup of candy that makes the candy go into a trick or treating basket?

Perfect, we had come up with an 8 step plan.

Here is our sketch: