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Scratch Lesson 4

Demonstrate iteration programming using Scratch

Click the picture to learn about iteration

Open your game from last lesson:

Task 1:
Add a forever loop to your 'good item' sprite so it moves (up and down or left and right for example)







Task 2:
Add a text bubble to your game so that your enemy sprite says something to your main character at the start of the game

Task 3:
Work on your game to add other elements that you would like. You can use internet research to help

a) Open your Scratch Evidence Document
b) Complete the Lesson 4 section
c) Save your work

Complete the next task in your HomeStudy booklet

DUE: Next ICT Lesson

The real name for a Hashtag

ELCS Software Revision on a PowerPoint

Answer each question on a new slide with three lines and three pictures:

• What is an Operating System?
• State three functions of the Operating System?
• What is Application Software?
• What is System Software?
• Identify and name six different types of Application Software?
• Identify and name six different types of System Software?
• Identify three different types of System Maintenance Software?
• What is disk clean up?
• Why is it important to update your Operating System?
• What is system restore and why is it useful?
• What is system information and diagnosis 

This link might help

And this one?

Memory

Exam Questions

• What is the differences between non-volatile and volatile memory
• Explain the purpose of both types of memory and when each should be used
• Explain the concept that data and instructions are stored in memory and processed by the CPU
• Explain the purpose of virtual memory and cache memory

Know Your Keyboard: Bang, Splat, Whack!

For your reference, here are the rest of my findings on keyboard slang, organized for you in this handy little table. This is by no means a complete list: feel free to add to, discuss, and/or ridicule the following names. You may never look at a keyboard the same way again!

Symbol	Common Name	Other Names
!	exclamation	exclamation mark/point, bang, screamer
*	asterisk	star, splat
/	slash	stroke, whack, virgule, slant, oblique
.	period	dot, full stop (British)
#	number sign	pound sign, hash (British), octothorpe, crosshatch
|	vertical bar	pipe, split bar, divider line
~	tilde	twiddle, squiggle
`	acute	grave, backquote, push, back tick
^	caret	circumflex accent, hat
‘	apostrophe	single quote, prime mark
“	double quote	inverted commas (British)
<>	less than/greater than	angle brackets, chevrons
{ }	braces	curly brackets (British)
( )	parentheses	round brackets, brackets (British), fingernails
[ ]	brackets	box/square brackets (primarily British)
\	backslash	slosh
_	underscore	understrike

Networking

Exam Questions

• Explain what a computer network is
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a computer network
• Describe and explain the bus, ring and star networking topologies
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these topologies

Keyboard Slang Starter

What are the real names for these slang keyboard charters?

screamer

splat

stroke

dot

octothorpe

pipe

twiddle

grave

hat

prime mark

inverted commas

chevron

curly bracket

fingernail

box bracket

slosh

understrike

Scratch Lesson 3

Create and program variables using Scratch

Task 1: Creating a Variable
a) Open your Scratch game and create a 'score' variable

Task 2: Enemy Score
a) Add script to your main character that sets the score to '0' when the game starts

b) Add script to your 'enemy' that will decrease the score by 10 points (-10) when you hit it

Task 3: Collecting Points
a) Load or create a sprite to act as way to collect points (coin, heart, jewel etc.)

b) Add script to your 'good item' that will increase the score by 10 points




Try adding a life or health variable into the game

a) Open your Scratch Evidence Document
b) Complete the Lesson 3 section
c) Save your work

Complete the next task in your HomeStudy Booklet

#11m5 Heroes and Villains - Lesson 2 - Proposal 1

Lesson Objective1: 

To understand what is involved in the Heroes and Villains project

Lesson Objective2:
 To develop ideas for your Heroes and Villains Project

Starter

Read through the sheet explaining what is involved in heroes and villains
Do you understand what you have to do?
Can you explain it to someone else? 

Main

Task 1 - Create an ExamTime Account

Go www.examtime.com and Google sign up for an account using your school email address

Task 2 - Mind Map

Use ExamTime to create a mind map of ideas of your heroes and villains project

• Your Target Audience 
• What type of game you will be making products for (board game, card game, video game)
• What is the name of your game
• Who the hero and villain for your game will be (name, age, description, abilities)

Extension Task - Start your proposal

• CLICK HERE to download the proposal template
• Save it in your Sites folder --> DA203SPB --> Evidence --> Proposal 
• Start filling the Proposal in using the ideas that you have come up with in today's lesson

Plenary

Be ready to share your ideas with the class

Putting Line Numbers on your code for CA

1. Copy code from Python and paste to Notepad++

2. “Select All” and click “Edit” > “Column Editor” or press “Alt + C”

3. Choose “Number to Insert”, fill “initial number” and “increase by”.

Heroes and Villains - Lesson 1 - Eportfolio 1

Lesson Objectives

 Lesson Objectives:  To appreciate the importance of organising your in a way that will allow easy access to it

Outcomes: You will have set up the folder structure and eportfolio needed for heroes and villains

Starter

Main

1. Open Adobe Dreamweaver and manage sites on your DA203 SPB folder
2. Create a new blank HTML template

3. Make the container 100% wide 
4. Change the colour scheme
5. Insert an editable region
6. Save it as a template

7. Make 3 pages from your template, save them as:

• home
• products
• evidence

8.  Link up all pages on the template

Extension Task

Create a banner for your website using Adobe Fireworks or Photoshop
Add your banner to your website   

Plenary

Show the following via snips on your Blog

Go to your website online --> dida.wildern.org/username

Test your pages

Do they all work as you expect? 

Do you need to change anything?

The unbeatable poker playing machine

Binary Kahoot

https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=588b3343-70ca-4f8d-9c48-4fc2cfa40753

Year 7 Revision

Year 7 Exam Revision: Computer Science and ICT

Logic Gates Game

Scratch game for logic gates

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12583438/

Dropbox

Click here to set up your Dropbox account

ASCII a brief History

Year 7 Scratch 2

Task 1: 'If' in Scratch
a) Launch your Scratch game from last lesson
b) Add some code blocks to your game for the enemy spritethat:

• makes the enemy sprite move in a random direction
• if touching the edge bounce away

Try experimenting with the degrees and steps

Task 2: If Else
Click here to read and learn about If Else

Task 3: 'If Else' in Scratch
a) Edit the code blocks of your main character sprite to include an 'If Else' statement

Try changing the 'mouse down?' block and the timings on 'say'

What is 'Selection'?

What is 'If Else'?

Year 7 Scratch

STARTER: Students create a character for a computer game using online resource PixelArt - http://makepixelart.com/free. Students also have access to a help video for this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVhzPdplE4

DEVELOPMENT: Task 1: Students will learn how to import sprites into Scratch and then add some basic programming scripts for the main character to follow. There is a help video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-djJ2pOaAg Task 2: Students will also import an additional ‘enemy’ sprite that will be used in a future lesson Task 3: Students should import or create a background for the ‘stage’ of their game

The Day of the Crates

Happy New Year

CiDA Web Exam Jan 2015

As you may be aware already the ICT retake will be in the week of 15th January. We will be doing some revision work on it in class but thought i would share some useful revision resources with you

If you go the ICT website you will find a page with lots of revision material 

http://wildernschoolict.blogspot.co.uk/p/ng-cida-developing-web-products-exam.html

I have shared a google powerpoint with you that explains some of the key skills that you need

 Unit1 Developing Web Products - A How To Guide

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Lastly Mr Smith has made a series of how to videos that show how to make a website using HTML videos you can find them on YouTube @ http://youtu.be/5N4ffcYY8hM?list=PL6KjnWrZTxt3Zg3iGS4NHcIPefhbnB7Do

Lastly a reminder that clinics are on every day after school if you feel you need some extra help understanding what to do in the exam

Any problems or questions about the exam then please see me ASAP