All about the Blocks
Paying Attention
Vocabulary
Debugging
Tech Celebrities
100
All games need this block
100
Name one of the senseis' names
Matthew, Maureen, Ron
100
What is this called?
Sprite
100
One key skill in debugging for coders is identifying differences in patterns. Can you spot the differences (3 in total)?
100
Co-founder of a popular computer and phone company with a fruit-themed logo.
Steve Jobs
200
What does this block do?
a) creates a camera object to called main1 to follow a sprite
b) turns main1 sprite into a camera
c) makes the game screen follow the main1 sprite
c)
200
Give one example we talked about today of where coding is found.
Minecraft, Youtube, Cars
200
What is this called?
Tilemap
200
Can you spot the difference in this code?
vs
The object that the sprite overlaps is not correct.
200
Founder of a giant online store that sells everything from books to electronics to groceries.
Jeff Besos
300
Which of the follow blocks tells the game that the player has lost and the game is done?
a)
b)
c)
c)
300
The type of game today is similar to a 2D obby, what is it called?
Platformer
300
The use of a set of instructions to communicate with computers.
Coding
300
In this pseudo Python code, where do you think there is a potential issue?
We need an umbrella if it's raining!
300
Creator of the world's largest social network where you can like, share, and post.
Mark Zuckerberg
400
These are examples of what type of blocks?
Physics
400
The platform we used today is called Makecode Arcade. Who is the creator?
Microsoft
400
This coding instruction tells a computer to do something only when a certain condition is true.
conditional / if statement
400
Something weird is going on with my code! Can you help me figure it out? When we press 'A', the sprite is running backwards 😣
We think it's somewhere in this block:
We needed velocity y not x!
400
Entrepreneur and inventor who founded a company that makes electric cars and launches rockets.
Elon Musk
500
We want to add a gravity effect to the sprite - which block can help us do that?
a) 
b)
c) 
a)
500
What languages can you use on the Makecode Arcade platform?
Blocks, JS, Python
500
These values are used to indicate a position inside the game, and are often expressed as a pair of numbers.
coordinates / x & y
500
Help us! The game isn't starting properly and what is going on with the sprite??
We suspect it's something we changed in this block 🤔
We used the Forever Event rather than the On Start.
500
The mysterious founder of a widely known digital currency that uses blockchain technology.
Satoshi Nakamoto