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#1 2011-08-01 17:21:44
A from block
It would be good if there was a block that instead of having to write loads of or's you could just used a a block that said number( ) to number( ). Would help when you want to make notices when the cursors and stuff are around an entire area not just one spot, its easy to do that anyway but would help if that block was made 
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#3 2011-08-01 17:35:41
Re: A from block
BoltBait wrote:
So, you'd like a block like this:
< [_______] is between [____] and [____] >
yup thats pretty much it.
ugh 180 seccond error
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#6 2011-08-02 05:54:16
Re: A from block
Harakou wrote:
Couldn't you just use the less than and greater than blocks to achieve the same effect? Just check if the variable is less than your maximum value and greater than your minimum value.
I know you can its a bit of a pain tho :L
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#7 2011-08-02 09:25:04
Re: A from block
poose wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Couldn't you just use the less than and greater than blocks to achieve the same effect? Just check if the variable is less than your maximum value and greater than your minimum value.
I know you can its a bit of a pain tho :L
That's the fun of programming, no? If everything is handed to you on a silver platter, things get a bit boring. In other programming languages, you'd have to work a lot of the programming out for yourself.
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#8 2011-08-02 10:31:11
Re: A from block
coolstuff wrote:
poose wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Couldn't you just use the less than and greater than blocks to achieve the same effect? Just check if the variable is less than your maximum value and greater than your minimum value.
I know you can its a bit of a pain tho :L
That's the fun of programming, no? If everything is handed to you on a silver platter, things get a bit boring. In other programming languages, you'd have to work a lot of the programming out for yourself.
and most people work out the scratch language out for themselves :L besides i thought scratch was ment to be beginner friendly and you don't seem to be proving that.
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#9 2011-08-02 12:03:54
Re: A from block
poose wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
poose wrote:
I know you can its a bit of a pain tho :LThat's the fun of programming, no? If everything is handed to you on a silver platter, things get a bit boring. In other programming languages, you'd have to work a lot of the programming out for yourself.
and most people work out the scratch language out for themselves :L besides i thought scratch was ment to be beginner friendly and you don't seem to be proving that.
It is meant to be beginner friendly, but it's also meant to segway into the more advanced programming languages, when you'd have to problem solve to figure out how to do this.
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#10 2011-08-02 16:40:59
Re: A from block
coolstuff wrote:
poose wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
That's the fun of programming, no? If everything is handed to you on a silver platter, things get a bit boring. In other programming languages, you'd have to work a lot of the programming out for yourself.and most people work out the scratch language out for themselves :L besides i thought scratch was ment to be beginner friendly and you don't seem to be proving that.
It is meant to be beginner friendly, but it's also meant to segway into the more advanced programming languages, when you'd have to problem solve to figure out how to do this.
Exactly. Scratch is supposed to be easy to learn, but it's not intended to do all the work for you. Learning is the entire point of Scratch, so making lots of pre-programmed stuff would be counter-intuitive.
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#11 2011-08-02 18:27:44
Re: A from block
This block actually exists in NXT-G, a robotic programming language that I think is made by the same group (MIT Lifetime Kindergarten). I don't think this is needed as it is easy to replace it with:
[[ ___ > Lower limit] and [ ___ < higher limit]]
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