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Use of Variable

The document discusses variables, program plans (also called algorithms), and conditional loops. It provides examples of using a variable to store a user's answer and creating a program plan with inputs, processes, and outputs to ask and check answers to math questions. It then discusses improving the plan to ask random questions and adding a conditional loop that repeats questions until the user inputs "Y" to stop.

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Use of Variable

The document discusses variables, program plans (also called algorithms), and conditional loops. It provides examples of using a variable to store a user's answer and creating a program plan with inputs, processes, and outputs to ask and check answers to math questions. It then discusses improving the plan to ask random questions and adding a conditional loop that repeats questions until the user inputs "Y" to stop.

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Use of Variable

 Variables stores a value, You give every variable a name, then you can use the
value in your program.
 Two variable are mentioned in the program plan
 In scratch there is a ready variable called ”Answer” you can ask a sprite a
question then the users answer is stored in the variable answer.

Program Plan
 For you to become a good programmer ,you must make a program plan.
 A program plan sets out the steps to solve a problem,

 Another name / word for plan to solve a problem is called Algorithm.


 A program plan sets out , the inputs and outputs of a program, it also
set the process to be carried out by the computer such as calculation .
Here is a program plan
 Input: Prompt with a question (what is 7
times 5) ‘Input ther users answer’
 Process: Stores the solution to the question .
 ( It compares the users answer to the
solution)
 Output: If the answer matches the solution
output ”you got it right”
Else, output “You got it wrong”
 >> You can also make a variable called
“solution” this will store your answers or
the correct solution to the Question.
>>Click on “make a variable”
 >>the variable will be ticked this means it
will show on the main screen.
Ask a random question
 This program will a low the user to practice the 7 times table.
 In the last lesson we created the program that asked a question.
 In this program we will change the program so that it can ask different
“seven times” question every time you run it,

 Our Improved Plan


Input: Make a random number
Ask “what is 7 times random number?”
 Process: Calculate the ‘solution’ to the question Compare the users answer to
the solution. do they Match?
 Output: If the answer matches the solution, Output ” You got it right”
 Else, output “you got it wrong”
Conditional loop
 In the previous lesson we created a program with a counter loop , it
loops exactly 10times,the has ten question.
 Before every test question the program will ask the user if they want to

stop the test.


 If the user types ”Y” (for yes) the loop will stop.

>> This type of loop is called conditional loop.


>> A conditional loop is controlled by a logical test,
>> A logical test compares two values . It give the result True or False.

Change the Plan


Here is the new program plan.
Input: Ask the question and get the users answer.
Process : Calculate the solution to the question.
Output: If ‘answer= Solution’ output you got it right!’
Else , you got it wrong!’
Input: Ask ‘ Do you want to stop’
 Go to the top of the loop
>>You must put the Question ‘ do you want to stop’ inside the loop , that
gives the user the chance to stop after every question,
Create the Test
 Your program will ask the user if they want to stop ., if the user types ‘y’
the program will stop.
>> This block compare the user answer to the letter ‘Y’.
Make this test block
Conditional loop
 Here the block that makes the
conditional loop.

 This type of conditional loop is called


Repeat until loop.it starts with a logical
test ,the command inside the loop will
repeat until the logical test is True.
>> Add the logical test at the top of the
loop.
>> Add the Question ‘Do you want to
stop?’ inside the loop.
**** The loop will repeat itself until the
answer to the question is ‘Y’

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