After you complete this module, you will be able to convert a plan for a simple animation into an Alice program that will instruct the computer to do what you want.
Things you will learn in this module:
- The way computing people learn new things is by exploring.
- Have a written plan before you start exploring.
- Translate your plan into code one step at a time -- test by hitting Play as you translate each little bit.
- Some steps that in the plan could be written as a single action will be broken down into multiple instructions or steps in the code.
- To make sure you are really understanding what you are exploring, you should be able to make predictions about what a code (or a slight modification to a code) would do before you hit Play. Make a prediction every time you make a change.
- Have you noticed how picky the computer is? It does exactly what you tell it.
Vocabulary for this module:
Code/Program: A collection of instructions that humans write to tell a computer what to do.
Instruction/Statement: A specific task (usually very simple) you can give a computer.
Plan/Storyboard: A written-down English description of something (an animation for now) you want to make Alice do.
Test: Hit play to see if your code/program does what you think it will do.
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