Monday, 5 November 2012

Tutorial


Keeping Score

The bricks highlighted in blue are the blocks that are keeping track of the score.  When the cat touches the yellow sprite the score will increwase by one.  the orange blocks are the main blocks controlling the score.  the blue is for when the cat is touching the other sprite it will notify the orange block to change the score.

Follow the Mouse

The block highlighted in purple is cotrolling the cat.  when the game starts the cat turns toward the mouse and follows it by 4 steps.  The dark blue is controlling the movement of the cat the way it faces and how it follows.


Animate it

The block is controlling the costume change of the cat.  When the game begins the cat will appear in costume one and after 0.5secs it will change to costume 2 and will keep switching between the 2. the purple blocks represent the costuume changs and the yellow are the time.

Run Away

This controls the sprites that the cat will haver to try and catch.  When the game starts the sprite will show and the will move around if its on the edge it will turn around and head in the other direction.  If the cat catches the sprite it will hide.

 Level Switch

The block is controlling the change of the background and the level.  When the game starts and the score reaches 3 the background will change to canyon startiing leve2.  the green is controlling what the score will reach and the purple the look of the stage.



These are exmaples of the coulors it chnages to.

 

 

 

Colour Change

In this the block it is making the cat change colour when it touches the red mosh he changes colour by 20.  This indicates that the red mosh is bad and to avoid it. 

 

Appear

The block above is controlling the red mosh to appear in level 2.  This is being used to increase the difficulty of the level. 

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Algorithms

Algorithms is a step by step instructions you tell the computer to write a computer program. the computer will follow each instruction that describes how to reach a goal.

Selection where in a algorithm is where youhave to make a choice betweeen two items.

Sequence the order in which the steps are carried out.

Repetition having to repeat a step until a condition is met.

Machine language is code for an aqlgarithom written in a alow level language that only the computer understands ie doesnt have english words in it.

High level compuiter language contains regular words i.e if, then, is.

Flowchart is a algorithm described using a diagram uses standard symbols i.e. a diamond symbol is used for selection.

Pseudocode (pseudo means like something) pseudocode is not real code and tool used by programmers to describe a algorithm it contains standard words like begin, end, print but is not code and is not understood by a computer.

Algorithm for driving through lights.

Is the light green?

If yes continue.

If no.

Is the light red?

If yes then stop.

If no slowdown.
EXAMPLES OF FLOWCHARTS


 my flow chart for driving through lights

Monday, 10 September 2012

Visual Arts Websites

Eliza and I have finished our websites for Kailey, Katie and Chiara.  I resized all four of Chiara's images and also 2 of Kailey's images.  Eliza resized all four of Katies and 2 of Kailey's as well we did this using microsoft office picture manager. On Kailey's website I linked the images to the pages and put them in to order and uploaded the larger images on the pages.  Eliza found a nice template that suited the website and she applied it also changing the font. On Katies website Eliza setup the template and placed the thumbnails while I made the other pages and applied the larger images.  Eliza and I worked together through out all of the websites.  We got Angel's website which we did with in the lesson of receiving it. 

Monday, 13 August 2012

QR codes and multimedia

What are QR Codes?

(QR Codes) Quick-Response codes are mobile barcodes that allow barcode-reading software in a mobile phone camera to act as a scanner. They can be placed in realworld settings & scanned with the phone camera and decoded.

What can QR codes be used for be used for?

To promote products and provide information on a particular subject or business.

Provide some examples of how they are being used in marketing and education.

  • business cards
  • catalogues
  • product packaging
  • t-shirts
  • menus
  • luggage tags
  • real estate signs information on the property
  • scavenger hunts
  • fruits and vegetables to show where they were grown
  • magazine and newspaper

What hardware (device) and software (apps or program) do you need to scan a QR code?

You need a smartphone and apps such as Google goggles or scan.

  What hardware and software do you need to create a Qr code?

http://www.qrstuff.com/ this link is to help you create your QR code it is preferable that you use a computer but any for of QR generator.

Create a QR code.


This QR code goes to my One Direction website.

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Problems that were incountred

Eliza and I encountered a problem with file types and movie maker the cameras files would not load to movie maker and neither would Elizas voice memos so we had to do a file type converstion so we could use movie maker.

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Gantt chart

This is our plan for our assignment.

Synopsis

We are creating an educational video on our topic "What are Smartphone Apps and How to Install Them". Sub topics contained in our video include: What is the internet? (3G and wifi), Different types of apps (games, educational), Easy to follow steps on how to make an Apple ID or Google Account for app download.  Our target audience is year9 students who will need this information to be able to use their smartphones to its full potential of a games centre and a social network.  Our video contains cutouts of smartphones (iphone4 and android), apps (facebook,youtube, weather, safari) and app store for iphone or play store for android.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

This is my finished animation.  a problem that occured in the production of  my animation was that the file that it was saved as on my USB was damaged so i had to use my last frame to set up my file again and place everything in order.

Thursday, 2 February 2012

IGoogle and google docs

IGoogle is a search engine which can be customised to your liking, with widgets and tabs to make controlling it easier

testing

testing my blog