Scratch
A block-based visual programming language and website
What is Scratch?
Mechanical, physical machines that work on their own along with programming.
What is a robot?
An electronic device that executes instructions in a program. (Double points!!)
What is a computer?
A list of specific steps for the computer to follow.
What is an algorithm?
Mr. Lance's school.
What is James Bowie High School?
Any character or object in your game. (Example: the Scratch cat)
What is a sprite?
The brand of robots that we used in our belt.
What are LEGO Mindstorm EV3 robots?
The physical materials that make up computer systems.
What is hardware?
A set of instructions for the computer to repeat over and over again.
What is a loop?
What is Austin Community College?
The type of block with a rounded shape on top of it. (Double points!!)
What is a hat block?
The part of the robot that acts as the control center for all activity.
What is the brick/brain?
The applications that we see on our computers. (Example: Minecraft)
What is software?
A container for a certain value.
The director and the assistant director of iCode.
Who are Mr. Jason and Ms. Erin?
The blocks categorized with a blue color that move your sprites in different ways.
What is the "motion" category?
A machine designed to convert a form of energy into motion.
What is a motor?
The part of the computer on which we see our applications and software displayed.
What is the monitor?
The process of identifying and removing errors from computer hardware or software. (Double points!!)
What is debugging?
Mr. Lance's and Ms. Alya's majors. (Double points if you get both!!!)
Computer Science (Mr. Lance) and Engineering (Ms. Alya)
The category of blocks that are used to detect when one sprite touches another.
What are "Sensing" blocks?
The robot dog that was designed by the robotics company, Boston Dynamics. (Double points!!)
Who is Spot?
The part of the computer that handles all of the processing; it is the heart and the brain of all computer activity.
What is the tower?
A Development Environment in which you are able to create and edit code.
What is an IDE?
Mr. Lance's and Ms. Alya's birthday.
What is June 25th?