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Programming Languages

My experience working with the program Scratch was exciting. This was my first time using this program but it was fun and a good challenge at the same time. I created a story clip that took place around a single main character. My problems with the program were that I tried to get some of the characters to spin and/or flip but that was a big difficulty. I could not figure out the “Forever” block. I tried using the “Spin” tutorial as a guidance on how to make the characters spin but the tutorial didn’t go into great depths. I overcame this road block by using rotating block and the repeating block in conjunction with one another to make it do the same thing but eventually coming to an end. Programming is very detailed and the programmer has to pay attention to all those minute details that are being involved. Comparing the program Scratch and the lessons learned in our text book I could see how Scratch uses all of the different types of machine languages depending on what the user is ...