Super Simple Scratch Question

[SneakySquid9]

In scratch can there be a situation where a script can be both selection and sequence?

[babadoctor]

11 minutes ago, SneakySquid9 said:

In scratch can there be a situation where a script can be both selection and sequence?

this is extremely vague

[SneakySquid9]

Yea lol for example when there is an “if” block (random blocks inside doesn’t matter) and after it there’s a move 10 steps, would that count as selection or selection and sequence?

 

(btw I am DEFINITELY NOT an expert by any means. I am taking Computer Science 1 and have NO real knowledge with coding so bear with me but hey, everyone has to start somewhere)

[Ithanul]

In the case of that question, yes it is both.  If statements are a selection/decision statement, but they most go in sequence of their internal steps.  Since a move 10 steps is after the selection statement, the next sequence is the move 10 steps after the selection statement has run its part.

 

You can have code with selection/decision and loops, but you can't have code without sequence (For the basic coding, not sure if there is code out there that breaks that rule).

[dizmo]

LoL, trying to do your homework?

[SneakySquid9]

7 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

In the case of that question, yes it is both.  If statements are a selection/decision statement, but they most go in sequence of their internal steps.  Since a move 10 steps is after the selection statement, the next sequence is the move 10 steps after the selection statement has run its part.

 

You can have code with selection/decision and loops, but you can't have code without sequence.

Thanks so much

And also anything with a loop counts as iteration right?

[SneakySquid9]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

LoL, trying to do your homework?

Studying for a test so I guess that counts ?

[Ithanul]

4 minutes ago, SneakySquid9 said:

Studying for a test so I guess that counts ?

What code are you learning? 

I took a bit of basic Visual Basic and C++ for my CS degree.

Best thing to do is do some simple programs and get the feel for doing code.  Once you get a basic understanding of the fundamentals, the basics do help when looking at other programming languages.

[SneakySquid9]

2 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

What code are you learning?  I took a bit of basic Visual Basic and C++ for my CS degree.

Best thing to do is do some simple programs and get the feel for doing code.  Once you get a basic understanding of the fundamentals, the basics do help when looking at other programming code.

For now we are just learning scratch but in the future I think our teacher is going to get into java and c++ (btw this course is in high school)

 

and also anything with a loop counts as iteration right?

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-moved to programming-

[Ithanul]

7 minutes ago, SneakySquid9 said:

For now we are just learning scratch but in the future I think our teacher is going to get into java and c++ (btw this course is in high school)

 

and also anything with a loop counts as iteration right?

Ah, so you doing the thought out process part of the learning.  Word of advice when you get to the coding, figure out if flow charts or IPO charts work for you, or you can use both.  It takes a little extra work to do those, but when troubleshooting your code it helps out a lot.

 

Hmmm, I can't remember right at the moment.  Been a bit since I did my coding classes. (Plus, at the end of my 12 hour shift and its bed time for me)

[SneakySquid9]

1 minute ago, Ithanul said:

Ah, so you doing the thought out process part of the learning.  Word of advice when you get to the coding, figure out if flow charts or IPO charts work for you, or you can use both.  It takes a little extra work to do those, but when troubleshooting your code it helps out a lot.

 

Hmmm, I can't remember right at the moment.  Been a bit since I did my coding classes.

I will keep that in mind and thank you for your help!

[SilicateWielder]

On 9/24/2017 at 8:56 PM, Ithanul said:

Ah, so you doing the thought out process part of the learning.  Word of advice when you get to the coding, figure out if flow charts or IPO charts work for you, or you can use both.  It takes a little extra work to do those, but when troubleshooting your code it helps out a lot.

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Yeah, unless you've been programming for a long time and have learned to navigate through a metaphorical flowchart for the code in your head (Which took me a several years to develop the ability to do), flowcharts can be very helpful when working out code.

 

On 9/24/2017 at 8:49 PM, SneakySquid9 said:

-snip-

 

and also anything with a loop counts as iteration right?

Loops can count as iteration but only if the loop does something like increase the value of a variable by 1 each time it recurses.

 

This is an iterating loop:

 

And this is not: