17: Paint Pot 5

Activity 17: Paint Pot 5

In this activity girls will learn how to apply procedures that they can create to make their code more efficient and organized.

By completing this activity girls will

Girls will work in the same teams of 3 or 4 that they did for the previous Paint Pot activities.
Tell the girls that they are going to clean up their apps using procedures. Ask them to think about how procedures can help them make more efficient code. Connect this challenge to the Chorus Coding activity.
Have the girls go to Thunkable, open their last Paint Pot file, and do a Save As. Name the new file with the corresponding number of the tutorial, like this:

TeamNamePaintPotFive_V1

Next, have them follow along with the Paint Pot 5 tutorial.
Wrap-up discussion
- How does the displayDotsize procedure reduce complexity in this program? The displayDotsize procedure reduces complexity by standardizing what it means to displayDotsize no matter where it is in the code.

Per group:

Interim CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards: 1B-A-2-1, 1B-A-5-3, 1B-A-5-4, 1B-A-6-8, 2-A-7-2, 2-A-7-4, 2-A-6-10

Next Generation Science Standards: 3-5-ETS1-1, 3-5-ETS1-2

Common Core Standards for English Language Arts: W.5.2d, W.5.6, SL.5.1, L.5.6, SL.6.1, SL.6.6, RST.6.3, RST.6.4

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