Playgrounds Day 2

What is a Function?
In Playgrounds, a function is a player-named command that groups tasks for ease of coding.

What is a Composition?
Composition is creating solution using existing commands to solve problems and create new behavior.

What did you learn about thinking efficiently?
While coding, I learned a lot about thinking efficiently. For example, I learned that to think efficiently, you need to look at the big picture, and what Function will help you the most in the future.

Command Activity

Question 1:

I was successful in following billy’s instructions to find the pen. It was a good experience, as the instructions were simple and direct, allowing me to easily find the pencil.

Question 2:

There was only one direction left out, which was to grab the pencil. If I were a computer, I would not have known to grab the pencil, but I did know to.

Question 3:

Something that I would do next time is to use meters or feet instead of steps, as everyone has a different length of step.

Playgrounds Day 1

1. What is a command? What is a sequence?
A command is a key word or words that a user would use to tell a computer or program to do an action, which is defined by which command you use.
2. What did you learn about giving directions and thinking like a computer?
I learned that when coding in a program, you have to be concise and tell the computer exactly what you want it to do. When thinking like a computer, you have to think about what will happen when you run your code, and how you can best implement your code to do that.

Alice Part 3

Alice Level 1: Control Structures Do Together

Alice Level 2: Making Procedural Methods

Alice Level 3: Build Your Own Program

Alice Part 2

Level 1: Building a Program

Level 2: Building a Program

Level 3: Building a Scene