Functions with the harvester

 Functions with the harvester



Today we played a coding game for our first-ever activity in this class. Now I'm not gonna lie, I picked this section of the activity because I took my definition of functions and assumed that it was gonna be easy. But boy was I wrong haha! Now don't get me wrong, it was amazing to see how functions within coding are actually created but for basically the whole class period; I could not figure out what I was doing even with the hints! It wasn't till after class that I played it a bit more and finally understood what I was doing and what needed to be done. Even then though, I couldn't figure out what exactly I had to code properly to get my little farmer to harvest the crops.  It took me a couple of days to actually figure it out and move onto the next level. Truthfully- I occasionally had to look up some of the levels to figure out what needed to be done to move on, but once I knew what I was doing; I kept breezing through each level!


Important TEKS-

5.1.a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply teaching strategies for integrating CT practices into learning activities in ways that enhance student learning of both the academic discipline and CS concepts.

5.1.d Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate.

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