Scruffy Is HAPPY!!

Finally I have finished my scratch project. Scruffy thanks all the dog trainers who play my game.
It's called Good Boy Scruffy!!
I realised it is very difficult to give a computer instructions. It's like they're stupid or something and you need to be extremely specific.
I changed my original idea and I have 7 different levels but on the same background. In each level the frisbee goes faster and smaller. In the end it gets very difficult to get the frisbee.
Scruffy is l0cated in the w drive, 9ist, T_4 project, Good Boy Scruffy.

I tried to use all the different options of instructions like motion, variables, control, sensing, sound and looks. A difficulty was that I had one extra long script for the frisbee and had to use repeat until instead of forever so I was able to stop the script in the end. I changed some of my original ideas as they were a bit hard to accomplish in the little time I had such as changing backgrounds and the dog returning the frisbee to his owner. Instead, the background stays as a beach and the frisbee automatically returns to the owner once the dog touches the frisbee. It also only takes one touch of catch of the frisbee to get to thenext level not 3.

To control Scruffy you use the right and left aroow keys as well as the spacebar to jump.

Have fun playing at the beach with Scruffy!

How to Catch a frisbee!!

This is a brainstorm of ideas I have on the idea for my assignment

The main charcter of the game is going to have a dog running on a beach that the game player can control it with the arrows.

The aim of the game is to make the dog run around on one level of the screen and get the blue frisbee that flies around the screen bouncing off the edges of the screen. I'm not sure if it should fly around random parts of the screen or just on one level. It probably would be easier and less complicated for me to make if it was on one level.

The game player would earn points by making the dog catch the frisbee in it's mouth by pressing the spacebar to jump as the dog is one level and can't run through the sky. The dog will then return it to the owner standing on the other side of the screen who will only appear when the dog has actually caught the frisbee. When you catch the frisbee each time it will earn you 1 point. So the game lasts longer when you earn 3 points on that level you will proceed to the next level. In each level the background will be different and the fisbee behaving in a different way.

1st level-very easy, slow frisbee on 1 level of the screen

2nd level-frisbee moderate speed, frisbee still on 1 level of the screen

3rd level-frisbee fast, frisbee still on 1 level of the screen.

4th level-frisbee moderate speed alternating between 2 levels of the screen as well as going side to side

5th level-frisbee very fast and alternating between 2 levels of the screen and maybe the dog has to find the owner by answering some sort of yes or no question.

OMG...A flying hippo!!

This was a funny tutorial because I got to make animals talk and I understood them like Doctor DoLittle. All I did was insert a background and 2 sprites. I then made a script for the duck to talk when the person clicked it. So it wasn't too fast or too slow I just made the words viewed for a 2 second period of time.

Control the Kitty OR Kitty go Crazy!

This tutorial was fun and Very simple. I just chose the key to choose, the direction it had to point in when that arrow was pressed. I needed it to actually move when it was pressed. I didn't want to make it move too fast so I said it should go 10 steps. I also did some editing to the background and made it look like the cat was walking on top of something.

Parrot flying.....flying Parrot

This was a pretty easy task compared to the shark and fish. All I did was find the 2 costumes of the parrot make them switch but wait between each so it wouldn'tgo too fast. Again I had to make sure it wasn't on the rotate button but on the only face left or right buttton. It worked well but I need to find a way to make it smoother as it seems to be hesitating between every switch of the costumes. To do this I made the wait between costumes a bit shorter and had the parrot take more steps.
To make it a bit more interesting I added a background as well.

Chomp, Chomp

This tutorial was a bit difficult but I discovered that if you double click on the score on the stage you have 3 options for what it looks like. One is just a number by itself, another says score and the actual score next to it, and another is where you can set the score back to 0.

Firstly, I imported the shark and the small fish. I had to make a variable which I named score. I then just made it randomly run around every where but not to randomly so I changed the pick random from 30 to 20 degrees. So both the fish and shark wouldn't fly off the edge I put an if on edge bounce block in. I then made the score cange by 1, the small fish scream and the shark to wait and move back -100 steps to let the small fish get away again. This was all done when the shark or the small fish bumped into each other.

The script was different for the shark and the fish. The small fish was simpler and it differed from the shark as I had to make the shark slower than the fish so it had acjance to catch it but faster by moving it 8 steps compared to the fish who was 5. I also made the shark scream instead of the small fish but it still worked anyway. So they wouldn't swim into no man's land and off the underwater stage I made them bounce if they touch the edge. I know that fish can't swim upside down so I had to make sure the 'only face left or right button' was clicked above the scripts and not the 'can rotate' button.

Round and ROund we go!!

This one is so hilarious, who knew making a squirells head go round and round could be so much fun. This one was very simple all I did was make the squirells head move wherever the mouse was. The blue option called sensing only works when it is joined in with something like the mouse x with set whirl effect. So it didn't only whirl once I made it go forever.

Gliiiiiiiiide!!

This was so cool I really liked it. Instead of making a ghost glide I made a buttterfly glide because I realised that some sprites don't change colour like ghosts. I wanted to make the sprite change colour every time it hit an edge and the butterfly would change colour. I mad ethe gliding go forever and after I entered the co-ordinates and seconds I wanted it to glide for or how fast I wanted it to go I put the change colour after every one. I imported a flower background so it looked like the butterfly was sitting on each of the flowers.

Cat and Mouse

I thought this cat and mouse one was too good not to take

a screen shot of. I was only meant to make the run but cats don't run when they're not chasing something becuase they are lazy. So I drew a mouse and made it the 'cat' of the tutorial as I made the mouse do the same steps as the cat. Point towards mouse but I

said to move 10 steps instead of 3 steps so it was fair and I made that go forever when clicked. I then made the cat instead of following the mouse I made it follow the sprite 2 that I drew so it looked like the cat was chasing the mouse.

Ya, Ya, Ya

This was a tutorial that taught you how to move people's bodies and put a sound to it at the same time. I imported a person sprite and went to control and imported when v key pressed. Then went to the sound ection and imprted a song or vocal called Ya. After that I went to the pinky purple section and chose play ya until done, I went to the purple section whick was looks and set whirl to 50. You shouldn't put the wait on for too long because it will look wierd. So 0.25 is good. You then set whirl to so it doesn't keep whirling around and makes the human look unatural but just return it to it's normal position.
Is this all you need to do-Ya, Ya, Ya!!

OOOOOOOh pretty colours!!!

There has been an amazing discovery if you right click and press save instead of print screening the scrpts column it just copies the script not the whole thing. This was a fun one although I thought I had to edit the butterfly sprite and change it myself ut it's quick and easy. All I did was go to the control section and press the orange icon that says when space key pressed although you can choose any key (right). Then I went to Looks and press the change colour effect by 25. AND....
OOOOOh pretty colours!!!

Angry Ghost Happy Ghost

I looked at the first tutorial and it seemed pretty simple. I watched some videos on youtube of how to use scratch as well. The first things I did was insert a ghost sprite. I wanted to make the ghost lokk angry as well but there was no angry ghost sprite so I edited the costume and drew some angry eybrows. I then inserted a background that I learnt from the videos that I watched. I then said when clicked in control, forever. Sitched to costume number 1 in looks, wait 1 second, flip 90 degrees in sensing. Then I switched to costume 2, wait 1 second and turn 90 degrees. It keeps you laughing.

The 7th Window

These are some of the questions we had to answer on the new Windows 7. By the way these answers were written on "PAPER" (which sir told us we would never use) and put onto the blog later on.



1.)What versions is Windows 7 available in?

There are 6 versions

-Home premium-Professional-Ultimate-OEM-Enterprise and Startup



2.)Describe some of the features of the new task bar.

-You can mouse over one program and all the windows associated with it will appear

-You can hover over a program for full size and click on it to bring to front

-There are large easy to see icons

-You can have 2 windows to fill the desktop size

-Big Button size for easier click, click, clicking away. This is very helpful for people who have touch screens



3.)What are jump lists and how are they useful?

Jump lists are where you right click or left click and drag any program icon that is on the ask bar to see a list of files that you've used lately in that certain program. It is useful as it helps make recently opened and used files easier to get to.



4.)How can one quickly size 2 windows to fill the desktop side by side?

All you do is drag one task thataway(left side of screen) and another to the other thataway(rught side of screen). They will automatically resize to haplf of your screen each. If you drag it away from the edge it will return to normal size.



5.)Research the 9 multi touch gestures that Windows 7 uses.



These gestures can be used for people who have windows 7 and are touch or non touch screen users.



Tap and Double Tap-clicking and double clicking

Panning with Inertia- scrolling, moving the pae up or down with your fingers, sometimes it has a little bounce at the end to tell you it's the bottom of the page

Selection /Drag- like a mouse drag and selection but moving your fingers across the screen. It is used to drag icons around the desktop, move windows and select text.

Press and Tap with second finger- like right clicking but using your second finger

Zoom-like the Ctrl key+Scrolll wheel. You pinch 2 fingers together or apart to zoom in or out of a document. Useful for reading things on a small laptop. Works in applictaions that support mouse wheel zooming.

Rotate-touch 2 spots on a digital photo and twist to rotate it. Move 2 fingers in a different direction or one finger can pivot around another. Applications need to add code to support this.

2 Finger Tap-tapping with 2 fingers zooms in around the middle of where you tapped. It can also restore to the default zoom. It is really useful for zooming in on hyperlinks. Applications need to add code to support this.

Press and Hold- same as right click. Press doen on the screen and release after the animation has appeared. Same as press and tap.

Flicks-flicking left or right to go forward or backward in a browser and other applications. It works in applications that support back and forward.

6.) What is XP mode. What users would find this feature most useful?
XP mode is used to run older programs and is useful for prople who work with 10 thousand million documents and needs to find them faster. It makes longer snippets, so searching for them is easier. It gives you more information and highlights the snippet more clearly.

7.)What feature related to removable drives has Windows 7 removed in a bid to increase security.
When you plug your USB or hard drive in it doesn't run them automatically anymore so there is less infections.

8.) What are the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7.
1GHz processor, 1 or 2GB RAM, 16-20GB of free space on your hard drive and a directX 9 graphics device.

9.) What observations does the article offer regarding performanc for Windows 7?
-Sometimes it is the slowest out of Windows XP and Vista
-It is the fastest to shutdown
-Windows 7 RTM ties with XP for Itunes encoding
-Slower than XP and Vista for booting up cold by a bit more than 1 second
-Feels faster when loading programs, opening the control panel, dragging icons, files and folders around than XP

Why doesn't this thing do what I want it to DO?

Algorithm- A form of solving a problem with a set of steps that you have to follow. The steps must be certain and accurate as well as having a clear stopping point. E.g. making a cake where you follow the procedure

Pseudocode-A computer program that needs to be converted to a code so that the computer can understand it before it can be used. It does this by using certain steps and stopping points(algorithm)

Machine language-A code that is built into the hardware of a computer. It is a system of instructions or data that the CPU performs and there is no need for translating it before using it.

High level computer language- It is more resourceful and capable of doing more things than the machine language, hence the high. They are considered high level becuase they are closer to human languages and further from machine. It is a type of computer programming language that isn't limited by the type of computer or the one specific job that needs to be done. It is more easily understood.

Flow chart- Also called a flow sheet that is a detailed diagram or chart of the operations through which material passes.

The beginning and ending or terminator symbols of a flowchart are lozenges, ovals or rounded rectangles. They normally have some sort of indication inside it telling you it's the start or the end.

Decisions are questions or branches in the process. They are represented as a diamond.

The process symbol is a rectangle. it is an operation action or step.

This is a flow chart of how an air conditioner works. It's not perfect because it doesn't have an end but it's pretty good.

Scrappy the Online Dog Blogger came through

Man, all the backgrounds that are free aren't very good. The really spectacular ones cost money and that's money I don't have. Another problem with scrapblog I found that I didn't think was a problem at first was the timing of saving and publishing. Man, it was frustrating how long it took. Another problem was you have to wait for the sticker, background to load onto the side toolbar before you can close the application for where you got it from or it will go into no mans land. Thankgoodness that my information wasn't deleted by scrapblog like some other people's were.

Once upon a time I didn't save my work and the internet shutdown on me as well as the scrapblog I was working on. I opened it up and wasted 2 more hours on retyping the information. From that moment on I saved my work after every page I created.

I fixed other problems as well such as my anger, rage and impatience. I became more careful and wary about what I was doing using scrapblog.

Overall, the decision to choose scrapblog was really good one, we chose it for it's mad, awesome, cool personalisation tools, the ease of adding information and other multimedia and the ease of navigation and straightforwardness of scrap blog. We discovered things on the way some were staring us in the face like instead of making a link to eachothers blog we could add a page from our other scrapblog's.

GOOD DOG!!!

Alelluia!!!

Angels are singing finally I finished my scrapblog, It was so hard to STOP personalising I was addicted to it I feel as if I need to go to one of those groups where you have confessions of what you are addicted to. The information was the hardest to find but eventually I got there I even added videos. I really like the turnout.

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbId=2166724

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We Put the 'U' in CP'U'!!

1.)What is the function of a CPU?

It is a Central Processing Unit or a microprocessor is like a computer engine that performs different methods and calculations all within a single chip.

2.)What was the name of the first CPU?

Intel 4004 which was used in 1971. It wasn't very powerful all it could do was add and subtract and it was very slow because it could only do maths 4 bits at a time.

3.)Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU's has changed.

All of the features have increased to perform more things ata faster rate. For example in 1974 the clock speed was 2MHz and it's name was 8080 this means 2 milliopn cycles per second. Compared to 2004 the Pentium 4 "Prescott" is 3.6 GHz which is 3.6 billion cycles per second. WOooooooWWW

4.)What does MIPS measure?

It stands for Millions of Instructions Per Second. Wow it's like one day when the teachers will try to shove heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of information in our minds per second. I reckon our brains would explode. It measures the performance of the CPU. Just like judges.

5.) A dual Core Processor is a CPU that has 2 execution cores that work independently all in one chip. Since they are independent workers and not in a group if one fails the other can pick the program that is opened right back up again. This is why the execution cores are really good at multitasking which is when the CPU can perform different jobs and run different programs at the same time.

The Intel Atom.

Oh my Gosh................it is so samll less than 26mm in area. It is designed to be able to have the internet cappability of a normal computer, to last long so there is no need to charge it up. It is used in the latest mobile internet devices including netbooks and nettops. It has a massive amount of power for a tiny little thing and the company think it will be a big hit.

Which Candidate wins

Nicole and I have voted today. And the winner is................Scrappy the Online DogBlogger. We discussed it's performance and decided that we would have fun personalizing it and it would be engaging for the reader.

Nicole and I also chose the subjects from the different coloured list that we want to research.

In the Blue

Me=1. Computer Displays

Nicole= 6. Handheld Multimedia devices

In the Pink

Me= 7. piracy and copyright

Nicole= 9. Social networking

In the Yellow

Me= 16. Types of ports

Nicole= 14. Graphics cards

In the Green

Me= 18. Blutooth

Nicole= 20. wifi

Scrappy the online DogBlogger

I've spent some time with Scrappy the DogBlogger and I think he's a good candidate for our ist assignment.
Good Things about Scrappy
-Heaps of applications to personalise and easy to use
-visually asthetic or eye catching
-Fun to personalise to make us more enthusiastic about our work
-Nicole and I can both log on and edit at the same time so we are able to get more work done
-Soon there will be the ability to print the scrap blog just in caswe sir is unable to view it


Bad Things about Scrappy
-There is no menu to tell the reader the content
-Some appl;ications you have to pay for
-It takes a fair bit of time to personalise
-It's more of a slideshow type blog

Overall Scrappy is quite good