Cheese Puffs and Cake!

Coding is hard!! I understand that this coding isn’t what people who are in computer science take but I must say that I had a really hard time understanding it. I took on more than I could handle with this task. When I started, I wanted to do a task that had a cat who needed to jump on a milk carton, for the milk carton to crush, and then for the cat to shoot a ball into the basketball hoop. After about 2 hours of working on this cat jumping, moving, and crushing, I wasn’t making enough progress. However, I found a video from scratch linked here that explained how to make a simple jumping game. If you want to give my game a shot, feel free to click here! My game consists of a bowl of cheese puffs jumping over a cake. Scratch was very interesting to try. I think that having a basic knowledge of computers would be helpful because I found it difficult to use the different actions, and then when I thought I had an action that worked I would click the green flag, and nothing would happen! I also spoke to a few friends who have used scratch and they mentioned that they had trouble using it in school. I think that if I were to use Scratch in the classroom I would give the students the freedom to choose their characters and background, but then project the game onto the board so that the students can participate with the teacher while also using the program themselves.

Thanks for reading!

5 thoughts on “Cheese Puffs and Cake!

  1. That’s awesome that when you encountered a difficult area that you sourced out a video explanation on what you wanted to accomplish. When coding, I always like to work smarter not harder hahahah by using resources that can help my coding journey a bit more easy.

  2. I am super impressed with the game you made! Good for you to stick it out and keep trying. I also struggled with the scratch coding big time, so I understand your struggle!

  3. When I read the title I was worried you had some how created a real cake using cheese puffs! Thankfully it’s just a great game instead haha. I’m honestly so impressed with the fact that you even persevered for 2 hours. In high school we used scratch and I truthfully didn’t like it that much. I didn’t have to struggle too bad since our teacher would give us a set of steps each day that we would have to complete to make our game. Definitely a better set up than being left to discover it all on our own! Great job this week!

  4. Hi Meghan,

    I strongly agree with you that coding is hard. In fact, I did it too with 3D Mario Adventure and I definitely got it after many try and lot of patience. From our experiences, it appears that when you put all the efforts in something, you finally get it. It not, you will know that you gave your best!. You did a great job!.

  5. What a cool game! I played it a few times but was getting frustrated when my puffs hit the cake hahah. I throughly enjoyed playing the game you created, Meghan!

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