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Breakout Part 7 (Adding a Score)

Breakout Part 7 (Adding a Score)

activities, home schoolers, home schooling

Our first step to add a score to our program is to reopen our project from yesterday.  We need to work with the Ball object, so we will double click on the ball object. Now on the far right there is a tab for score. Selecting the score tab makes the objects that work...
Breakout Part 7 (Adding a Score)

Breakout Part 6 (Moving the Ball)

activities, home schoolers, home schooling

Today we will add actions to our Ball.  First we need to reload our program from our saved file.  You should then be back where we left off.  If you can’t see the list of objects on the left, use the plus sign to the side of objects to expand it and then double...
Breakout Part 5 (Add Actions for Our Bat)

Breakout Part 5 (Add Actions for Our Bat)

activities, home schoolers, home schooling

Now we get to start adding actions to our objects.  Yeah!  First you will need to reload where we left off.  You should have Sprites, Objects, and your Room set up. Our objective is to move the bat left and right with the left and right arrow keys. Set up from Part 4...
Breakout Part 4 (Designing our Room)

Breakout Part 4 (Designing our Room)

activities, home schoolers, home schooling

Today we are going to continue working on our game of Breakout.  It will take shape by the end of this activity and be ready for us to add actions to the objects.  Start by reloading the project that you saved at the end of the last Part. You should see your Sprites...
Breakout Part 3 (Object Creation)

Breakout Part 3 (Object Creation)

activities, home schoolers, home schooling

Today we are going to move on to creating the object to go with our sprites (graphics).  The object will later be associated with actions.  (Like  making the ball start moving. Objects are one of the choices on the left. If you have saved last time and are coming back...
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I am a SAHM/WAHM of three boys ranging in age from 13 to 29. We are working on saving enough for college at the same time as dealing with school and our older independent kids. I author a few blogs, including http://teched4kids.com. I have in the past taught computer information technology classes for the local university and taught workshops for kid's in technology education besides being the Kentucky State FIRST LEGO League Championship Coordinator from 2005 to 2008. I now work as a computer consultant, run a handmade home business, and am available for workshops. Life here is always an adventure!
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