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Control Structures
Tech Grab Bag
Blocks
100

This is the name of the scratch cat.

Who/what is Scratchy/Scratch Cat?

100

The name of the each individual code piece in scratch.

What are "blocks"?

100

This runs code until the program reaches a certain state. These states are expressed typically with words like “while, repeat, for, do, until.” This type of control structure is called ____.

What is a loop?

100

The primary goal of a computer

What is "to compute"/Do math

100

An area of the Scratch User Interface located to the left of the Code Area, storing all the code blocks in categories for easy finding.

What is the block palette?

200

A ____ is one of the many frames of a sprite, and is most often manipulated to change the appearance of sprites.

What is a costume?

200

A group of organized, reusable code that is used to perform a single, related action. This makes writing scripts easier, as you only need to call this to run the code beneath.

What is a function?

200

This happens when a repeat until() block cannot finish before the code moves on to the next part, usually caused by poor nesting.

What is a "crash."

200

The decade the first super-computer was made

What is the 1940's? (The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, made by Tommy Flowers, and was first demonstrated in December 1943 )

200

These blocks are necessary for a script to run by sensing events and running a script accordingly.

What are event blocks?

300

This is a duplicate of a sprite, usually made through control blocks and are modified separately from the original sprite.

What is a clone?

300

A sequence of computer characters, including spaces. They can be of any length and can be used in certain blocks, mainly found in the Operators section.

What is a "string"?

300

One of the control structure blocks in scratch.

What is/are Repeat Until ()/Repeat ()Repeat for a Set Amount of Time / Recursion/Forever/Game Loop?

300

Computer software that interferes with normal computer functions or sends personal data about the user to unauthorized parties over the Internet.

What is malware?

300

These purple blocks change the appearance of sprites

What are looks blocks

400

The ____ ____ location of the screen is where a sprite would be located if at (150,-150).

Where is the bottom right?

400

A value that is either true or false.

What is a boolean?

400

A default control structure in most languages, where the code is executed in the order of one after another until the end.

What is a sequence?

400

The elongated form of "U.S.B."

What is Universal Serial Bus?

400

This pink block holds code beneath a brick labeled "define" and runs the code when called.

What are My Blocks/Custom Blocks?

500

An area of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Scratch program where all sprites reside in a project where they can be easily accessed to modify or inspect.

What is the "Sprites Pane?"

500

This word refers to any area in a block that accepts user input, or another block. It could be a Boolean block, number input, Reporter block, a text block, or a drop-down menu.

What is an argument?

500

This control sequence are systems that only complete an action once a specific condition is met.

What are conditional control sequences?

500

The first computer mouse was made of this material

What is wood?

500

Without plugins and addons, there is only this amount of block types.

What is 9? (Looks, Motion, Sound, Events, Control, Sensing, Operators, Variables, My Blocks)

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