Programming Languages

Hello,

My experience using scratch was good. It was not really something I understood until I looked at the instructions. I didn't understand how I could change the character to something other than a cat-like other people did. But I like how you can make the cat say whatever you want it to. This is pretty cool if you want to make an animation to show people or teach a small instruction video.


I had a lot of difficulties using scratch because of some of the blocks I don't even know what they mean or what they do. But I tried to understand. It was a lot of the variables I didn't know what they meant.


I overcame the difficulties by watching the tutorial video on the site. There's a lot of different tutorials that teach you what is what. Also, you can look at other people's scratches to see what they did and I think it's really cool.


The insights I gained from programing from this is that I see how you have to know how to move something across the screen with the right amount of steps and how to put in the graphics and the sounds and music in the right positions to create something nice and its not as easy as it looks. But when you practice you will get better at it.


Programming with Scratch and the exercises I did in the book don’t seem the same at all to me. It's like scratch is trying to make programming even more simple so a lot of people can do it.

When I describe the differences between program languages I know that python is one of the easiest ones and it’s the first you should learn. I don't think Scratch is really program language but knowing where to put the blocks. But that's how python and other program languages are. You got to know where to put all the code.



The language I found the easiest to use is python because I started playing code combat and I found it really easy to learn so far like this one hero.moveup(). I remember what to type to move the character and how to fight.




I think when we use python it’s most effective for normal computer activities. I think C++ is for more complex things like to use for work computers because there are so many more important documents and personal information.


I think that python is the most popular programing language. The reason why is because it’s the easiest to learn and a lot of people use it to make games and different types of graphics.



Andrea

Link:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/520712811/