Hi all,
Just starting on Scratch myself and this question has come from a school in India that I'm in contact with. I put them on to Scratch and they've gone ahead of me quickly!
"One thing is a puzzle which the teachers keep asking me so I am asking you!
If you go to the number menu and add two numbers e.g. 6 + 4, where is the
result displayed?"
Any help gratefully received.
Philip Callil
IT Faculty Head
Xavier College
Melbourne Australia
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The result is not displayed, by default. If you want to display the result, you need to either put the addition into a "say" or "think" box on a sprite, or put it into a "set variable to" block with the variable displayed on screen.
(You can also do it via sprite costume changes, but one step at a time, eh?)
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Hi pcallil,
it's wonderful that you're introducing Scratch to a school in India, and that they are quickly catching on!
In Scratch there are currently three ways (I'm aware of) to display something:
1) make a sprite switch to a custome or the stage switch to a background
2) mark the checkbox to the left of a reporter block to create a watcher onstage
3) let a sprite "say" or "think" something
The latter two methods are probably easiest if you just want to show a computational result.
For a start you might want to have a look at some projects which are displaying math-results. Here are some quick picks of mine:
method 1) - http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/kevin_karplus/80371
method 2) - http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Animax/51623
method 3) - http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/David_Hellam/3805
Please continue to ask if this answer leaves anything open!
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