Simple pacman maze game

SIMPLE PACMAN MAZE GAME

FIRST Computer Programming ACTIVITY

Goals: What will Youth do and create?

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  Youth get their first hands on experience of the Scratch programming environment. Participants can play around with the Scratch Interface and get accustomed to the design and layout of the tools.
  

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  Youth will create a simple pacman maze game
  

Objectives: What will YOUTH learn?

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  how to program using the MIT Media Lab Scratch environment and its graphical interface
  

Preparation and Materials:

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  A computer for each participant with Scratch installed
  
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  Simple Pacman Maze Starter Game installed
  

Step 1: INTRODUCE SCRATCH  

If you have a screen and a projector, you might show this 2 minute scratch video:

http://vimeo.com/65583694
If you need ideas about how to introduce Scratch to children, try watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jxDw-t3XWd0
Explain what computer programming is and what the Scratch programming environment is.

Have participants open up the Scratch program on their computer.  

Introduce the layout of the screen interface




Right Section - The top of this pane contains a preview of your scratch project as well as the Start and Stop buttons. In the middle part of this pane, you can edit, import, or draw your sprites costumes, and through this you can also create duplicates. The 'master' selection and probably one of the most important tools is at the bottom of this pane. It controls whether you are working with a Sprite, or the Stage (Background), and is especially important because each of these has their own Scripts, Costumes, and Sounds. It is important to build the costumes and programs for the object (sprite or background) that you wish to work with. You know you are working with a particular object because a box will appear around it by simply clicking once on the object you want to work with.
Middle Section - This contains Scripts, Costumes, and Sounds.

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  The Scripts section is where you drag the program blocks from the left pane to create your program
  

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  The Costumes section is where you can import images to be used as costumes or simply the individual looks and frames of your Characters or Sprites
  

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  The Sounds section allows you to import or record sounds to be used in the Sounds section of the left pane
  

Left Section - This contains the toolbox and subsections with the individual blocks that can be dragged into the center Scripts section to create programs.


STEP 2 :

CREATE PACMAN MAZE GAME
Have youth play an example game at www.scratch.mit.edu username: Learn2Teach2013

Have youth choose a maze or create their own.

Have youth choose a pacman and delete all the rest of the pacmen

Have youth choose a coin

In this simple pacman maze game:

Use arrow keys to move the pacman

1 point for getting a blue dot

2 points for a candy or cheeseburger

5 points for a strawberry

Red & White Round Coin ends the game

SCREENSHOTS OF THE CODE!

STAGE




PACMAN



ENDING COIN


Cheeseburger & Candy


Strawberry


Blue Dots



Documenting:
Make a gallery for the community organization and have youth upload their projects online
www.scratch.mit.edu
username: Learn2Teach2013

password: setc97