18 Lucky Ducks: Hour of code with Cecilia Uhrin

Hi everybody! A few weeks ago we started working and learning in an online platform called drawing with codes. This page has a special system where each one has an account but everyone has the same task. This task has different steps that we have to complete. Some are videos that we have to watch, others are documents that we have to read and after that we have challenges that we have to do and once we complete them we get points. When you get points you win awards!

This is your profile, were you can see your profile picture, that looks like a monster. At the beginning he is very small, and by geting points he can get bigger. At the beginning you can choose the colour of the monster. You can also see your earned points, your process, your badges, that are some kind of achievements, and also all the projects that you did.

The first challenge that we had to do was to draw a simple snowman. Like you can see we only need three circles and to draw them we will need to use a special code that starts with the word “ellipse” (that means circle) and inside this () we will have to write numbers for the x-coordinate of the centre of the circle, y-coordinate of the centre of the circle, w for the width of the circle and h for the height of the circle. If you want to change the place of the circles you can try changing the numbers. On the up-right-corner you can see that, to help you, Khan Academy tells you some numbers to start with.

This is an example of a project called "wild animal" that one of us made. On the left side is all the coding. It looks difficult to understand, but actually it is very simple. You only have to write the command of the form that you want to use, and then between the parenthesis, the coordinates. And in the right side, you can see what you are drawing.