The coders were making apps and making things that helped the world using code. I find the video very inspiring. I find it impressive that you can make extraordinary things out of code. Coding makes this work possible because you can tell the computer to do something and it does it. They said in the video that the first step is very important.
This week we made spreadsheets. I chose the baseball home runs comparison of the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. For one of my formulas, I highlighted all the home runs both teams hit in their histories. And then clicked sum and it went next in the totals row. I learned that the Yankees hit 8000 more franchise home runs than the Mets. You can use spreadsheets to take class attendance if you’re a teacher.
I calculated averages, and did a social studies flag quiz. You use ask blocks to ask the questions and answer blocks to check the answer. I learned how to put the two together to form a question and answer quiz. I enjoyed making these games for our school subjects this week. Above is the code I used to make the two projects/games. I used a variety of blocks including blocks in the operator block section.
My quiz game helps you study for English. Specifically, our symbolism quiz coming up. The character I had talking was a dog. The setting was on a desert. I played Zachary’s game. I liked how he gave you a point every time you got a question correct. I also liked how he gave instructions before it started. Overall I really liked this project.
I watched Zach Z’s blog post. I liked his project because his theater background went great with the rest of his project. They animation was really cool because the characters were jumping up and down and others were walking back and forth in the background. His soundtrack went great with the animations the characters were doing.
In programming 201 in Tynker, one activity I completed was jumping over obstacles. In this activity, you learn about controlling your character to jump in the air without flying away. Tynker can be tricky because you don’t always know how to exactly code what they tell you to code. Tynker can be good because it walks you through a quick tutorial before every activity. One thing I learned how to do was code Codey to jump over obstacles. Overall, I’m learning a lot from Tynker and having a great time doing it.
In my about me project, I included drums because I play the drums, a baseball scene, and a basketball scene because I love baseball and basketball. I also added a lion because they are my favorite animal. In the drumming section, I programmed Tynker so that when I click on the drums, they play a song. For the baseball section, when you tilt the screen left, the ball moves to the left towards the batter. When it gets to the batter, you tap the batter and he swings, then you tilt the screen right and the ball is hit and goes far. For the basketball scene, when you tap the basketball, it moves forward into the hoop. For the lion, I coded it so when you click on him, he roars. For each of my images, I uploaded them from the web. My background I picked was an outer space background because I love space.
I never knew how scenes in some movies are made until now. In the video “Computer Science is Changing Everything” I learned how in “Finding Nemo” in the scene with Crush, a lot more goes into that scene than just putting a bunch of images together to make it look good. They have to type/computer program the entire scene and then get it corrected and finalized to make it look fun. I never knew coding worked its way into making movies. After watching the video, now I know how animated movies are made and how much work goes into making them.