Programming Languages

Upon interacting with the Scratch website, there were slight hesitations going into it but after viewing the tutorial and understanding what functions did what, it became a little easier. Some difficulties that were encountered in Scratch were understanding wait times in conversations, different movement in positions on the characters, and realigning all characters when the show was over. To overcome those difficulties was to first understand what all tools were available to me. After watching more tutorials, the broadcast code helped with conversation transitions, as well as character appearances. To tackle movement positions, setting glide codes and rotation styles helped. To fix the alignments on characters when the show was over took a few to fix but in the end, setting the x,y, and direction numbers fixed it. Some insights that I gained from this exercise was that every single thing that has to do with every character has one code in order to do ONE thing. That is crazy when you really think about it. Comparing experiences on both Scratch and participation activities was the Scratch website was more hands on with your creation and ideas coming to life. The participation activities were understanding early machine languages with 0’s and 1’s, understanding the assembly language, and introduction to Python which was difficult for me to understand but playing around on it helped. I feel the differences between the both is one is user friendly and the other is just a bunch of numbers. I found the Scratch JavaScript block-based language a lot easier to use.

To me, an effective scenario revolving around a C++ language would be probably a development job. The Python language would be geared more towards a higher purpose type of job because it seems complex. When I think of Javascript, I think of website making and with Java, I think of game developing. I believe the most popular programming language would be Java because growing up, that is all I hear about when on a computer. I really did not hear about C++ till I got into college and I just heard about Python when I started this course.

References

Scratch. (2022). Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/655627121

Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing technology for all. zybooks.zyante.com/