Scratch Functions
These functions will move your sprint on your project page. Some options include gliding to a random position or a specific x-, y- coordinate.
What are the MOTION functions?
A container that a program uses to store and remember information. This can hold numbers, words, and even whether something is true or false.
What is a variable?
She is a robotist that worked on early Mars rover designs and Sno-Motes that have been used in arctic exploration and data collection on climate learning and global warming. She created companies dedicated to the study of robot-human interaction, designing robots to assist humans in variety of tasks including helping people with disabilities.
Who is Ayanna Howard?
The center of the project space in coordinates (x, y).
What is 0, 0?
These functions can make your sprite make sounds like music or like a cat meow.
What are the SOUND functions?
A special program that could translate alphanumeric input (ab-c’s and 1-2-3’s) that humans could read and understand into the binary language of computers.
What is a compiler?
NASA's first female launch director. She recently gave the all-clear for count-down on the Artemis I mission launched on November 16th 2022 to the Moon.
Who is Charlie Blackwell-Thompson?
The direction your sprite goes when moving in the positive X direction.
What is the right direction?
These functions will initiate your code. You can select a clicking on a green flag or specific key to start your code.
What are the EVENT functions?
This code translates words or computer process instructions into a series of 1’s and 0’s that tell computers what to do. The word “hi” is 01101000 01101001 in this code.
What is binary code?
She is the first an only person to receive two Nobel prizes in two different categories. She discovered two different elements, radium and poluninum. During WWII she created mobile X-ray machines to support soldiers and surgeons at the battle front lines.
Who is Marie Curie?
The direction your sprite goes when moving in the positive Y direction.
What is the up direction?
These functions can change the looks or costumes of your sprite or change the background on your project space.
What are the LOOKS functions?
An element of code that only happens if something else is true. These are also called “if” statements, because “if” something happens, then something else will occur.
What is a conditional?
She worked on Early hybrid vehicle battery technology and the Centaur rockets that were used to launch satelites into space for communication systems like GPS.
Who is Annie Easley?
The direction your sprite goes when moving in the negative X direction.
What is the left direction?
These functions include loops or conditional functions, including wait or forever functions.
What are the CONTROL functions?
A way of writing a piece of code that repeats multiple times. If I want to draw a square, I can write one loop that says “go straight, and then turn right” and have it repeat 4 times
What is a loop?
She coined the term bug /debugging with issues with computer issues and code after finding a moth in computer hardware. She created the first compiler the translated mathematical code into machine-readable binary code.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The direction your sprite goes when moving in the negative Y direction.
What is the down direction?