Building from Scratch
Scratch is fun! I’m familiar with different types of programming. I started learning to code using Visual Basic. I enjoyed the drag and drop features that VB used and felt it was a great way to get started learning how to code and Scratch felt very similar to those experiences. However, I quickly found out how rusty I am coding in this format. I had no idea how to start. At first, I wanted to make a tic tac toe game but found it difficult to define the area where the program would place the Xs and Os. Instead, I scrapped that game and created a game where the user would try to guess the answer to different questions a wizard would ask. I had trouble understanding how the program would run if-then statements. I found troubleshooting those statements difficult as well. I’m familiar with being able to comment a line of code for the program to skip it, with Scratch I couldn’t figure how to skip a line of code unless I pulled the whole line out which would pull other parts of the code away as well. But, like most things, practice made perfect. I watched a few YouTube videos describing how to create if-then statements or repeat statements and figured out how to make the program work correctly.
