Session 5: Moving Around

Working plan

  • Characters’ characteristics
  • Our characters can draw
  • The block “pen”
  • Let’s draw stars and polygons

Icona tasquesStep by step

  • Every characters has got a small i on the left side of the top. Click on it and you will see this information:
    Informació del personatge
  • The  direction: we can establish the direction of our character. We can change this option ib the following block:
    Direccions del personatge
  • We can establish any value between -180 and 180 to indicate a concrete direction.
  • The positive values mean “right” and the negative values mean “left”. We can see this compass with the directions:
    Rosa dels vents dels personatges
  • We can fix the position of our character with the style of rotation. We can change this position with the following block:
    Estil de rotació
  • The option show: our character can be shown or hidden with this option.
    Mostra Amaga

Icona repte Repte 1

  1. Create a new project: m1repte 51
  2. Create a character that takes a tour like this one.
  3. Make it stop for 1 second every time your character changes its direction. 
    Repte moviment

REPTE 2

 

Our characters can draw

Icona tasquesStep by step

1.Create a new project: m1repte52.

2. Choose a character and put it in the middle of the stage looking at the right side:

Inici programa

3. Let’s have a look at the block “pen“:

Blocs de llapis

  • If you have any doubts, read the information at the right side.
    Ajuda llapis
  • To start drawing we can click on pen down and, from now on, our character will draw when moving.
  • For example, we can make our character draw a square. We have two options:
    Quadrat sense repeteix   Quadrat amb repeteix
  • If we waht to clean the stage, we will click on clear.bloc:

4. Make your character draw a regular triangle.


Icona repte Repte 3

  1. Create a new project: m1repte53
  2. This time, your character must draw a regular polygon of more than 6 sides.

Icona pistaClue: Look at this example:
Dibuixar polígon


Icona repte Repte 4

  1. Create a new project: m1repte54
  2. Our character must draw a star of 5 points, choosing the colour of a pen and its size.