PDD Reflections

Reflections – Week 1 (PDD)

Spent about half the week looking at other projects on the Scratch website and using the “Look Inside” feature to learn more about how they are programmed. Making an effort to understand some of the more complicated code, and searching up tutorials when necessary. Started to actually program my project last Wednesday, and made decent progress. Have already completed jumping and moving controls, and fine-tuning them to fit my requirements. Also making an effort to understand how to create a scrolling screen, however still confused as of yet. Will look at more projects & experiment with various different types of code to make it work.

Reflections – Week 2

I have now gotten used to the program and have begun importing sprites from the internet. For most of this week, my work involved searching for and inserting sprites I found on the internet and like the aesthetic of onto the program. At first, I was just looking up random pictures on the internet, but then I found that by staying on one site that I liked, I could insert multiple sprites at the same time without having to spend extra time looking for them. I believe that this drastically sped up the time it took to find all the things I need. As of right now, I still have not managed to work out the “scrolling screen” that I was attempting to implement, however most of the sprites are complete. Now I just need to program in the behavior for the sprites and design levels and I will be finished. What I realized from this is that when searching for pictures or other important items on the internet, I need to stay organized rather than hopping around haphazardly.

Reflections – Week 3

This week was all about the programming. With all the sprites already inserted, I now needed to program in the coding for the sprites. Although I am familiar with the program, there is still a lot of new and more advanced things to learn and I have not yet mastered some of the things I needed. Thus, I decided to go on the internet and look up tutorials on how to implement the code that I could not figure out myself. I felt that for the most part the tutorials were very concise and accurate, and allowed me to implement features the way that I had intended them. For the most part, I felt that the programming segment of this project did not go poorly. However, one thing I felt could be improved on is to try and implement some of these features myself before looking it up on the internet, as I believe that given enough time I could have successfully pulled it off.