notes from the tech lab
IF you want fun, THEN Scratch!
Note to parents: TYPING DELAYED UNTIL NEXT WEEK
This week we got wrapped up in an introduction to programming – there are so many exciting discoveries that the 6th grade voted to delay typing to the week of October 6th.
Scratch is an open-source introduction to programming and animation created by MIT. The interface is drag-and-drop, meaning we don’t have to write the code ourselves and can get right to making stuff happen. Topics covered this week:
- Similarities between Scratch and a stage performance (actors, stage, backgrounds, costumes, scripts)
- If/Then/Else logic statements
- Loops
- Initiation of programs
We also took some time to access and explore personal student network drives and discussed the use of the server to save and access files.
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