Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach

Put it all together and you get https://studio.code.org/. It is part of the whole coding-in-school endeavor. ANYWAYS, I went to the website (thanks for the heads-up, Lionel) and modified some kid’s existing project. The one I worked on was done in Scratch coding, which is this drag-and-drop block coding methodology.

Here is a picture of the code:

When I press a “play” button, the code activates a little guy who draws a picture on the canvas. By changing the number of degrees the guy is supposed to turn (see last line of code), I was able to get some incredible designs.

See for yourself:

89 degrees (left square spiral)

91 degrees (right square spiral)

179 degrees (left line spiral)

181 degrees (right line spiral)

Here he is in action:

Try it yourself!

https://studio.code.org/projects/artist/r7zYG3wEG88ASvNeO5hFAA