Honestly, when I heard we’d be doing programming at the end of term, I was terrified. I have friends that write code and program for fun, and it never even remotely interested me or looked like something that I could do. It was sort of looming over me all term, until we actually got to Scratch and the Blockly Maze it actually wasn’t so bad. The Maze was pretty fun and I really like the concept of using Scratch to get school children into programming from a young age. It made me wonder how my feelings towards code and programming would have been different if I had experienced this when I was eight or nine, instead of as a college student. It probably would have made everything a lot less intimidating!
The Blockly Maze really was a lot of fun. I didn’t even try to do it using the Logic function, but stuck to the Commands because that seemed a lot more simple (if a little longer and less useful). Maybe sometime when I don’t have a lot to do, I’ll try to figure out the Logic side of it.
As it was, it didn’t take me very long to figure out the maze, once I figured out how to use the controls. The only thing I had a little trouble with was judging the “Move Forward” distances; I could never tell if I should use one command or two because I was never sure how far one command went.
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