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CL4 - CH2 - Drawing A Square 2

The document discusses drawing shapes in PictoBlox. It explains what shapes are, prepping the stage by choosing a backdrop and deleting sprites. It introduces pen extension blocks for drawing and provides examples of using blocks like pen down, move and turn to manually draw a square. The activity asks the reader to create a script using repeat blocks to automate drawing the square using the same blocks.

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CL4 - CH2 - Drawing A Square 2

The document discusses drawing shapes in PictoBlox. It explains what shapes are, prepping the stage by choosing a backdrop and deleting sprites. It introduces pen extension blocks for drawing and provides examples of using blocks like pen down, move and turn to manually draw a square. The activity asks the reader to create a script using repeat blocks to automate drawing the square using the same blocks.

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Drawing a Square

Session 2

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Recap

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What is a Program?

• A program is a set of instructions that a


computer follows to complete a task.

• The computer receives the information,


handles it, utilizes it and then gives an
output based on it by following a
program.

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What is a Program?

Programming consist of three parts:

• Planning the program


• Writing the program in a
programming language into a code

• Testing and debugging the program

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PictoBlox Interface

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What is Backdrop?

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Backdrop

• A backdrop is one out of possibly


many frames, or backgrounds of
the Stage.

• The Stage can change its look to any


of its backdrops.

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Choosing a Backdrop

• You can choose a backdrop from the


backdrop library.

• Uploading a file from the computer.

• Creating one using the paint editor.

• Click on the backdrop library and


select any backdrop.

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Changing the Backdrop
• Click on Choose the Backdrop and select forest as backdrop.

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What is Costume?

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What is Costume?
• A costume is one out of possibly many
“frames” or alternate appearances of
a sprite.
• Sprites can change their look to any of
its costumes.
• Every sprite must have at least one
costume.
• One of the most common uses of
costumes is to make an animation for a
game or other project.
• Available costume for the sprite are
shown on the left side in Costumes tab.

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Costumes Tab

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How to create costumes?
There are four main ways of getting a
costume or background for a sprite
or stage.
• From the costume library.
• Drawing one yourself using the
inbuilt Scratch Paint Editor, by clicking on
the costume and clicking the “paint”
button
• Getting an image or multiple images
that exist as files on the computer.
• Taking an image from a webcam,
by clicking the “camera” button.

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Another cool thing that you can do in PictoBlox
other than creating animations is drawing
shapes. Let explore it in this lesson.

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What are Shapes?

A shape is an external form, boundary,


or outline of an object. Some of the
common shapes are:
• Circle
• Rectangle
• Square
• Triangle
• Oval
• Star
• Diamond
• Pentagon
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Prepping the Stage for Drawing

• Click on the File button and select New


to open a new project.

• First, we will set the Backdrop. Choose


the Xy-grid backdrop from the
Backdrop library.

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Prepping the Stage for Drawing

• In the sprite palette, you’ll see both


Tobi and the pencil. Select Tobi and
right-click on him. In doing so, a menu
will drop down.

• Click on ‘delete’.

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Pen Extension

• To draw anything with the pen, we will


need pen extension blocks.

• Click on the Add Extension button.

• Then, click on the Pen extension to add


use the blocks.

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Pen Extension Blocks
We will be using the following blocks
from the pen extension in the next topic.

• When you run the pen down block, you


enable a mode where, whenever the
sprite moves, it will draw lines on the
stage.

• When you run the pen up block, you


enable a mode where the sprite does
not draw while moving. To erase all the
lines, we will use erase all block.

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Making the Square Manually

• Click the pen down block.

• Then, click the move 100 steps


block.

• Next, click the turn clockwise 90


degrees block.

• Repeat steps 2 & 3 three more


times.

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Activity : Let’s make a Square
Using script

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• Now, let's create the script to draw the
square by stacking all the blocks
together.
ACTIVITY

• To draw the square, you had to click each


of the 3 blocks 4 times.

• To make a script that does the same, you


need to add all 3 blocks in the given
sequence 4 times!

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• You can simplify all this by using a repeat
block. Just add it around the 3 blocks and
write 4 in the space.
ACTIVITY

• Place a pen down block above the repeat


block to draw the square and place a
when () key pressed block above the
entire script. That's it.

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Final Output
• Click the Green Flag to run the script.
ACTIVITY

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