Lab Check-Offs

No checkoff needed for Lab 1!

Show your Field of Flowers.

Show your random-walk sprite.

Show your draw square-leaved flower...` block.

Why should you Build Your Own Blocks? Give a reason that someone may create a custom block.

What are some different ways to achieve repetition? Name at least 2.

What is a Boolean? Explain why we use them, and give examples of functions that report a Boolean value.

What does the mystery reporter (at the bottom of the “Reporter Blocks” page) report when run with the inputs hello and 5?

Name a few of the input types. Why is it important that we specify input types?

Explain the difference between a command and a reporter block.

How are global variables different from script variables?

Show us your traffic signal and letter grade blocks.

Show us the is _ between _ and _ ? block.

Show and explain your sum of two smallest block.

What is a list? Why would we use a list of 10 elements instead of just making 10 variables?

What do map, keep, and combine each do?

What is the difference between the for each (item) loop and the for (i) loop we have used in previous labs?

Show us your acronym block.

Show us your expand block.

What is an algorithm? Please give an example both in real life and from class.

Are algorithms which are (on average) faster always “better”? Why or why not?

What might some “trade-offs” to different computer science algorithms be?

How can abstraction and algorithms relate in computer science?

Please show both your findNumberInUnsortedList and findNumberInSortedList functions and describe the difference in the algorithms used.