Shannon Library Coding Club

In the second session today I shared a Scratch Spaceship Supply program and how you can customise your own sprites and backdrops. (by downloading from the web and rescaling)

This is a complicated multi-sprite Scratch game where the player must steer the supplies from the supply ship at the bottom of the screen to to the spaceship which zooms past at the top of the screen.

The code can then by used as a reference for various things the ninjas may want to achieve in their own Scratch programs.

Such as:
1) Controlling a sprite (the supply ship by using the left/right arrows)
2) Changing the sprite costumes (the spaceship smiles when it gets its supplies)
3) Synchronizing sprites (the supplies follow the horizontal position of the supply ship)
4) Moving sprites automatically (the supplies move upwards when the player presses the spacebar)
5) Communication between sprites (the supplies tell the space ship when they have arrived)
6) Keeping sprites on screen (boundary checking for x and y)

I then asked the ninjas to delete the spaceship and supplies sprites and just spoke about how the player controls the supply ship

I also demonstrated the BBC Micro:bit playing Scissors, Stone and Paper.
https://microbit.org/