I found today’s assignment really fun to explore, trying to solve the Blocky Maze seemed easy at first but it definitely became more difficult. I was able to get all the way to the last step (#10) but there I met my match and could not figure out the order the sequence of blacks should be in (see bottom of post for screen shot of how I kept getting stuck). This game shows how programing works and each step or command is inked together with all the other commands to create a change reaction (and in my opinion, this is a tedious process). It reminded me of coding and how if one little thing is off images, text, etc wont display or perform the desired function properly. This is exactly how programing works, fitting together small commands in carefully planned sequences so that if one statement is true or a action is taken then the proper resulting action will occur. This is best demonstrated by the if-else clocks in the Blocky Maze game.

When I read about scratch and watched the video about it for today’s class it made creating videos much simpler and I understood how many of the videos I have watched were made. Up until know I wondered how anyone could know so much about programing to create such videos (even ones where the graphics were not that great) if they were not professionals who had undergone lots of training about it; now I can see how this simple programing formula/site makes that possible for anyone to create small animation videos with out to much trouble.

blocky maze #10