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#1 2010-05-31 03:23:05
[Do-together] loop block
Sometimes, you have to create a broadcast and make a lot more scripts than necessary when you want something to happen to a sprite simultaneously. 
That's a real pain. 
So, for Scratch 2.0, I'd like to see a 'Do-together' loop block! 
It would look like a 'if < >' C-chaped block, but would execute the blocks inside of it simultaneously.
Thoughts? 
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#2 2010-05-31 03:36:27
- Wolfie1996
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Re: [Do-together] loop block
I support! 
This would be very useful when making 1s1sers - and any other project that you'd want to do stuff together in
One question, though - what would happen if I put something like this:
[do together]
[go to x: (100) y: (100)]
[go to x: (-100) y: (-100)]
[/do together]
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#3 2010-05-31 03:42:39
- Jonathanpb
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Re: [Do-together] loop block
I support! In BYOB, you can make a block and script it with other blocks, and make the block execute everything simultaneously - I want that in Scratch as well!
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#4 2010-05-31 03:52:18
- juststickman
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Re: [Do-together] loop block
Wolfie1996 wrote:
One question, though - what would happen if I put something like this:
[do together]
[go to x: (100) y: (100)]
[go to x: (-100) y: (-100)]
[/do together]
That is where we get a syntax error and scratch crashes.
Jk, I'm not sure though...
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#5 2010-05-31 04:03:49
Re: [Do-together] loop block
juststickman wrote:
Wolfie1996 wrote:
One question, though - what would happen if I put something like this:
[do together]
[go to x: (100) y: (100)]
[go to x: (-100) y: (-100)]
[/do together]That is where we get a syntax error and scratch crashes.
Maybe... A debugger in Scratch 2.0! That would be epic! 
It would make 2 instances of itself, and each instance would go to each location!
But instances and classes can be hard to understand for kids... Not that I'm not one myself. 
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#6 2010-05-31 04:45:50
- juststickman
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Re: [Do-together] loop block
iCode-747 wrote:
But instances and classes can be hard to understand for kids... Not that I'm not one myself.
Kinda simple actually. For little kids...
A "class" is like a job, but the instance follows it exactly.
An "instance" is like a person doing a job, but they make no mistakes and follow instructions exactly.
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#7 2010-05-31 05:51:58
Re: [Do-together] loop block
juststickman wrote:
iCode-747 wrote:
But instances and classes can be hard to understand for kids... Not that I'm not one myself.
Kinda simple actually. For little kids...
A "class" is like a job, but the instance follows it exactly.
An "instance" is like a person doing a job, but they make no mistakes and follow instructions exactly.
I heard differently...
A class is an object.
An instance is a type of that object.
What language?
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#9 2010-05-31 10:01:42
Re: [Do-together] loop block
iCode-747 wrote:
juststickman wrote:
iCode-747 wrote:
But instances and classes can be hard to understand for kids... Not that I'm not one myself.
Kinda simple actually. For little kids...
A "class" is like a job, but the instance follows it exactly.
An "instance" is like a person doing a job, but they make no mistakes and follow instructions exactly.
A class is an object.
An instance is a type of that object.
What language?
No, they're all the same. Don't you notice his definition? Carry out a job provided by the class.
The Class is an object.
An instance is a type of that object that does the real work.
Did you know that classes can have parents and children? It makes our line more complicated, but a child class is mutated from the parent Class and called its own. It's a useful function of programming called "inheritance".
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