7P8 - CS first

List of 25

Animate a name
Super hero story
Greeting card
Christmas animation
Maze
Music
Create a film
Building tool
Meme animation
Boat story
Create a google logo
Pong game
Calendar
Keyboard
Game
Cards
Date
Name
School story
Logos
Icons
Smiley faces
Basketball story
Animal shelter
Vacation animation

Using CS first, I created a many different scenes with all of them having different characters talking an different things moving because when things are moving they are more fun and interesting. Thing are a lot more interesting especially when when there is more detail added such as movement and characters talking back and forth having conversations.
During this process, I learned that coding isn't that hard if you watch the videos that show you how to code the projects step by step. Another thing that I learned is how to make the figures talk and move. I also, learned how to add a background to
The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to an empowered learner because I had to watch videos and learn how to code in different way on all of the projects. My project also ties to being a computational thinker because I had to think about what I wanted my projects to look like and be very creative with what I made and coded within these activities.
A challenge I overcame on this project was coding certain things in certain ways. I was able to do it by watching videos and looking at the details and coding very carefully so that I knew what to do when I had to do it on my own projects. I also overcame the challenge of saving, taking videos, and snipping my activities. I was able to overcome this challenge by watching the videos, using the snipping tool on the commuter, and using an iPod to take the videos and send them to me. Another challenge that I overcame was getting the snips that I took onto my google site. I did this by going to drive clicking new then file upload then chose what file I needed and that saved it to my drive so that I could go to site and click from google and insert so that is how I have my pictures.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change how the water moved. The reason why I would change it is because the water had a little glitch to it and next time I would try and see if I could make the water move a little bit smother. The water still worked fine in this project but it didn't move very smoothly and I didn't really like that.
This project connect to careers in coding. It could connect to a video game coder that codes video games with different sounds and moving characters. The google logo project might be useful if someone wanted to design google logos like sometimes before a movie, there is as short clip in the beginning of Dreamworks. The activity that you animate a name could be helpful to design something like that.