Can you help fix a bug in a Scratch program?
- Original Author: Karen Brennan
- Education Level: Preschool and Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College and University, Professional Development, Other
- Content Types: Activity, Assessment, Handout, Sample Scratch Project
- Curricular Areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Language Arts, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Studies, Teacher Education, Technology, Visual Arts, Other
- Keywords: intermediate, debugging, errors, challenge
This is a collection of 5 short Scratch programs that aren't working the way the creator intended.
I used this as an activity at the CS4HS Creative Computing workshop, as a way of talking about the importance of debugging as a computational practice. I broke the participants up into 5 groups and each group focused on a bug. Each team then shared their bug with the rest of the group, demonstrating a way (or multiple ways) of fixing the bug.
This looks great. I'm going to do a version of this as an activity for my experienced Scratcher group next Saturday.
Awesome -- I'd love to hear how it goes! :)
Great Idea!