Category: Computer Tech

Review on the Scratch project

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In this project I worked on for over two weeks, I was able to become more comfortable with using blocks in Scratch and most importantly, became much better at controlling things. What I enjoyed the most was the fact that I made a game for other people to actually play. My experience with making these 3 projects: Maze, Pong, and Scrolling was pretty good! My first tries for all the three projects were pretty good, to be honest. Nevertheless, making the Scrolling game was more ardous than the other two projects.

In order to make my project special, I made a scoring system which allowed me and the other people who play my game to be able to keep track of how many points they have. At first, I was confused on how to do so, but because Mr. Rose showed it to my whole class step by step, I had a really fun time making the system. What I basically had to do was make a new block. That was why I was almost pro at making it at the end of the class:)

Overall, since everyone’s projects were very creative and well thought, I especially liked Sunny’s as her project had a nice music along with the fish going through lots of obstacles.

In conclusion, I really really liked this project and so did the other projects to! At first, I believed that Computer Tech will be too hard for me since I am not good at coding; however, because of Mr. Rose and the myriads of ways he tried to support us, I was able to grow a lot from this quarter. Again, thank you so much Mr. Rose for working hard to make our projects really fun and most importantly, make learning exhilarating for us! 🙂

~Spread Sheet 2~

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From looking at this chart that shows the students’ favorite months of the year, I  learned that 1/4 of the sixth graders at SMS like variety of months. Some love January while other love August. It also taught me the diversity of the students in our school as well as how we are same in some ways.

First of all, we can say for sure that most of us love the summer. On the graph above, it says that 25%of the people who took the survey loved July which proves that. Surprisingly, this was the exact opposite of my favorite since my favorite month is December. I really like December, not only because I can play outside in the snow with my friends and siblings, but I can also spend more time with my family. Since it is cold in the winter, we stay at home/inside and I can get closer with them. Because I don’t know which students from which houses voted, I’m still not sure on which students from which house has the same favorite as me. However, I hope that a lot of people in Cooper does.

The chart shows the opposite of my favorite, so I was a bit surprised and dejected at first but I think that summer is popular since people get to go out with their friends more frequently. On normal school days, a lot of students go to hangout in places such as goldenhorshoe and their elementary parks, but in the summer, they can do that whenever they want. Overall, looking at the graph and learning more about how spreadsheets work was a very intersting experience for me. I hope that I get to learn more about it in the upcoming future too.

 

Music Video

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This is my second blog of this quarter! Today, I will talk about the music video project! In this project, like we did before, we used the platform called Scratch and made a project that makes the the sprites (if you don’t know what a sprite in scratch is, click here because this website will explain what sprites are! Oh and ya… It’s a bit hard to explain here….:https://www.idtech.com/blog/what-are-scratch-sprites)move and dance! We also had to incorporate music đŸŽ¶ into our projects which was really fun to do! One of the biggest challenges I faced in the project was finding the right music. At first, to be honest, I didn’t even know where to get the loop musics from Scratch.(or as you want to call it, a bgm=background music) Luckily, I found it on myself towards the end of the class! YAY! I was really glad. Now, let’s talk about finding the right music. Well…. when it came to finding the right music, I had a bit of difficulty since there were too many of them to choose from! In the end though, I used these loops called “ Dance Magic”, “Xylo1”, and “Xylo2”, which sounded pretty good to me:) Honestly, I still have some things I want to figure out. First, I really would like to know how to turn the music down at the end of the project. When I was looking at Sam’s project, I saw that his  sprite stopped dancing after the music got quieter and quieter by each second or so, and I thought that doing that was a really good idea. Next, I would want to learn more about how to turn back the sprites from being upside down. I had to spend a long time trying to figure out, but because of the circumstances, I had to forget about it and submit my project:(…..

In the end,  something good happened. I was able to take a look at my classmates’ projects!!!!! From all the wonderful projects that were on there, I really really liked Sam’s! His music and backdrop matched perfectly and how the sprite moved made me laugh 😂! Probably the best thing was that he made the sound both bigger and quieter in the project! I hope I will be able to do that sometime though it may seem impossible…