Scratch

Paddle2See wrote:

I suggest you talk to previous participants as much as possible and get a feeling for what they found most useful during the competition - then cram on those items and hope for the best.

Good idea! I have last year's winner's email address; I'll ask him. 

P.S. I'm not sure of how this fits better in MaC than RaP... I haven't been on the mic forums much. Sorry.

Last edited by Hardmath123 (2012-08-21 06:12:08)

That seems TOOUUGGHHH.

I've got a question for you, its not about you but its about scratch: On the operator selections, one of them is something=something. I've seen scratchers put 'if a variable=1 then show, if variable=0 then hide'. My question is what does the zero and the 1 mean?

Hardmath- help me please, i've been asking since about a couple of weeks and I still have no answer!!!

Hardmath123 wrote:

You should ask this on your own forum topic; don't be afraid to make your own topics! 

Regarding your question; I'm sure the variable contains 0 or 1, and is used basically as a switch. For example:

when [die]
set [dead?] to (1)

when flag clicked
forever if <dead? = 1>
say [game over]

Thanks--- I read about you in this forum---- You'll be fine.... I wish you good luck whenever it is.... I needed this info for my extremely slow developing scratch game.... I'm onto making the actual game.... As far as making own topic, I forgot about it, I'll remember next time... Let me tell you, I will put your name in credits as well with other scratchers that have helped me...Wish me luck for completing my game

These aren't very hard tasks to accomplish, excluding the last one. Don't really know much about Apache, storing information like that, or anything.

I'm assuming you mean building a computer instead of building a CPU, as generally CPUs are made professionally and available for consumer purchase. A single person learning and acquiring the components for building a CPU would be insanely difficult.

Anyway, building a computer from parts is really, really easy. If you can build with, like, legos, you can build a computer. Basically, you need to know the components that you need, and what's connected to what. Essentially, what you'd need is the

(keep in mind this info is not specific about how these things work)
Case, for holding stuff together and keeping it protected, ventilation, etc
Power supply, for giving power to your other components
Motherboard, which is the "hub" for the other parts
CPU, processes data
Memory, deals with stuff that's currently going on with computer
GPU, or video card, not essential if there's integrated video on the motherboard
Storage drive, for dealing with stored stuff, either a hard drive or solid state drive
An optical drive for booting the OS

Very nice tutorial from Newegg here on putting this all together. Bear in mind this takes a few hours. I used this for help when building my own PC, the one I'm still using now. http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=lPIXAtNGGCw (this is just part 1)

Things to remember:

Beware of static from your body, you don't want to fry your parts
Make sure to use the motherboard standoffs to keep it off the side of your case
Be careful with the CPU, DON'T bend any pins
Don't force anything


The virus is very easy. What you mean by a replication virus is you just need to have a program open itself, correct? Two seconds of Google can solve that. Also, StackOverflow is a very good site for learning about programming. Basically, you're just want to build a program that opens itself. Once it opens itself, it'll open itself again. It repeats this until your computer is frozen.

That's all the help I can offer. Good luck.

Last edited by cocoanut (2012-08-21 12:05:07)

cocoanut wrote:

These aren't very hard tasks to accomplish, excluding the last one. Don't really know much about Apache, storing information like that, or anything.

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That's all the help I can offer. Good luck.

Thanks a ton! I've gotta bookmark this thread to refer to there. 

Hardmath123 wrote:

Arrgh! It's on Monday. You know the worst bit? I was just told my team consists of me and some senior girl with barely any coding knowledge. 

I can't help, but I wish you good luck!

BirdByte wrote:

Don't worry, chances are that the other teams are in the same pickle.

I never thought of that... thanks!

The building a PC part isn't too hard, it is just putting some parts together. Like what wolvesstar said, taking a look inside a computer is probably the best way to learn.

You just a LiveCD with Ubuntu (or any other linux distro) for the "boot linux" requirement.

No idea about how to make Windows do verbose boot.

A replication virus, would either open itself repeatedly (easy), or create copies of its file(s) (just as easy).

I don't remember if Ubuntu comes with apache (probably not), but it isn't hard to install (just download, install, run). Can't really help with how to make a social networking site, but it would take a while. If it was me, I would make it similar to twitter, it would be the easiest idea to replicate.



I hope some of what I said somehow helps you, but I doubt it.

It's today! I'm so excited! (and to be honest, nervous) 

Wish me luck, everyone. 

Last edited by Hardmath123 (2012-08-26 20:15:31)

Sounds awesome. Wish my school would do stuff like that.

Good luck! 

Did it go well?