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What is Scratch?</h3>
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Who made it?</li>
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How does it work?</li>
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What can it do?</li>
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What are the blocks and how they relate to coding?</h3>
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Can be dragged and placed</li>
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Different shapes/colours represent different aspects</li>
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Round ones are analogous to Functions</li>
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Sharp ones are variables</li>
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Control ones are Logic/Conditions</li>
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Why is this good?</h3>
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Allows kids to focus on logic and the mindset of coding without having to learn or care about Syntax/lines of code</li>
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Allows for direct visualisation of what the code does</li>
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My own experience</h3>
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Started with blocks in Lego Mindstorm</li>
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Evolved to C HTML/PHP and then Python</li>
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The workshop</h3>
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Kids made 2 games that covered all basics</li>
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Triggers/Input</li>
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Functions</li>
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Variables</li>
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Were all customised by them</li>
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Explain that each kid made their version</li>
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the football crazy one turned my cat and balloon game into a Football Match</li>
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They got to take them home</li>
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The games covered the basics on this way</li>
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Input using keyboard for triggering functions</li>
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Use Functions to modify location parameters</li>
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If/Then Conditions for when sprites are touching each other/the walls</li>
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Variables for storing points</li>
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Operands to increase Points in variable</li>
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End conditions</li>
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Loops for permanently checking the If/Then Conditions</li>
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Ask about the organisation</li>
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<a href="https://moramundus.pt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">
Mora Mundus</a>
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<a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">
Download and learn more about Scratch</a>
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