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Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

You're reading from   Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition Create digital stories, games, art, and animations through six unique projects.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782160724
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Badger Michael Badger
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to Scratch 2.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. A Quick Start Guide to Scratch 3. Creating an Animated Birthday Card 4. Creating a Scratch Story Book 5. Creating a Multimedia Slideshow 6. Making an Arcade Game – Breakout (Part I) 7. Programming a Challenging Gameplay – Breakout (Part II) 8. Chatting with a Fortune Teller 9. Turning Geometric Patterns into Art Using the Pen Tool A. Connecting a PicoBoard to Scratch 1.4 B. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – ensuring grammatically correct questions

We have a good grasp on accessing groups of words as a single item, but this exercise is going to look at the individual characters of those strings. Right now, the teller has a script that starts with the when I receive (intro) block. It ultimately prompts the player for a question and validates the question before issuing the answer. We're going to revise this script. The steps are as follows:

  1. Detach the broadcast (fortune) block from the bottom of the stack and move it out of the way for now.
  2. The existing repeat until () block already provides a check for a minimum length and a duplicate question. We can perform a third check by adding a second () and () block to the existing evaluation. You'll need to reconstruct the expression by replacing the not ((questions) contains (answer)) expression with an () and () block. The following screenshot shows the revision:
    Time for action – ensuring grammatically correct questions
  3. To the open value, we want to add the following evaluation...
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