Venus Computing – Scratch program and debugging our projects                   03.02.2015

This week, we fine-tuned our Scratch programs! As we set out to run our programs, we ran into some common programming errors, such as sprites actions weren't functioning as we had planned and sequencing of events and motions were occurring in random order. We learned that make sure our programs were running in sequence, we had to test it out continuously as we made our algorithms. Working with each other, and sharing tools and ideas, we helped to solve  - debug – the errors we had in our programs. Debugging was added to our computing vocabulary knowledge!

Running our programs as we made changes to make sure we
were debugging errors as we went along

For those of us who’s programs ran in sequence, we extended our actions and events by adding in sound effects to enhance our work! We had to figure out how to loop the sound effects through each action in our program – we worked hard to improve our programs, sharing the skills with one another J

                                                                          

                                                                                                 Extending our projects to include more actions and sounds
‘Some of the programming was tough – my sprite kept doing the opposite of what I wanted! When I looked at how I made my events and actions, I realised where the program was telling the sprite to do the wrong thing’ – Mya