SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Scratch – Test Project
It’s horrendous and hokey, but just wanted to finish it up and while I solved some of the little glitches that came up, I still don’t have the music loop running throughout as it should. Also didn’t bother getting more creative with it since I wasted so much time on drawing the characters and found that I had to keep re-drawing them because for some reason, the pixel arrangement would change and they’d look even worse than what I’d drawn in the "paint" program within the software.
With so much going wrong–and I admit that most if it was my fault–I just couldn’t see spending more time here. If used in a high school (they say college) level for basic programming, I would think that no more than a class or two would be necessary for most students in an environment where teamwork would speed up the learning process.
On the other hand, if the graphics were better, (I used my own backyard photo as a background and the two characters with several costumes), there were some projects on the site that showed a much wider range of creative output and possibility.
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