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Itching for more
Designed for students who have advanced through Scratch and are ready for additional challenge, this resource explores Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB) as a tool for learning modular programming using procedures.
After examining, briefly, the history of the computer and the Turing Test as a measure of their improving artificial intelligence, students learn other fundamentals such as binary representation and the role of the processor.
Soon they embark on a series of programming projects, each fully supported with screencast videos, that build computational thinking skills such as generalisation, pattern recognition and decomposition. The projects cover:
- Sprite interaction
- Parallel and sequential instructions
- Event-driven programming
- Capturing and validating input
- Making decisions with nested and complex conditionals
- Random Numbers
- Using procedures to solve sub-problems
The accompanying student workbook provides opportunities for assessment of understanding, going beyond teacher-observation of coded solutions.
All resources required to complete the projects are provided in full.
Snap! is an online version of BYOB which avoids the need for installtion of software.
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Itching-for-More-TUTOR.pdf 1.8 MB
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Itching-for-More-LEARNER.pdf 2.06 MB
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IFM-Projects.zip 1.89 MB
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BYOB-Media-Files.zip 1.47 MB
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IFM-Screencasts.zip 40.1 MB
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Itching-for-More-TUTOR.pdf 1.8 MB -
Itching-for-More-LEARNER.pdf 2.06 MB
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IFM-Projects.zip 1.89 MB -
BYOB-Media-Files.zip 1.47 MB
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IFM-Screencasts.zip 40.1 MB
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