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Computational Thinking & Scratch - Intro to Computer Science - Harvard's CS50 (2018)

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Learn the the basics of computational thinking and learn about the Scratch graphical programming language. Learn the foundations of computer science in this course. This video is lecture 0 of Harvard University's CS50 2018 course. 🔗Notes: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/notes/0/ 🔗Problem Set: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/psets/0/ 🔗Source Code: https://cdn.cs50.net/2019/fall/lectures/0/src0.zip ⭐️Contents⭐️ ⌨️ (00:50) Introduction ⌨️ (03:13) Binary ⌨️ (09:37) Binary Lamps ⌨️ (11:20) ASCII ⌨️ (18:48) RGB ⌨️ (24:00) Finding Mike Smith ⌨️ (24:06) Computational Complexity ⌨️ (29:44) Pseudocode ⌨️ (32:36) Introducing Scratch ⌨️ (33:41) meow ⌨️ (34:04) Oscartime ⌨️ (45:16) counting sheep ⌨️ (49:18) pet the cat ⌨️ (57:07) threads ⌨️ (59:11) events ⌨️ (1:01:23) functions ⌨️ (1:06:45) Ivy's Hardest Game Lecture taught by David J. Malan. Thanks to Harvard's CS50 for giving us permission to post this lecture. Checkout their YouTube channel for more great lectures: https://www.youtube.com/cs50 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://medium.freecodecamp.org

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1189.906, 'text': "these days we're going to use three bytes.", 'start': 1187.565, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 1194.148, 'text': 'One byte to specify how much red should be in that specific pixel.', 'start': 1190.686, 'duration': 3.462}, {'end': 1199.07, 'text': 'One more byte to specify how much green should be combined with red to form that pixel.', 'start': 1194.828, 'duration': 4.242}, {'end': 1205.993, 'text': 'And then one more byte, a third, to represent how much blue to combine with those other two colors to make a new color altogether.', 'start': 1199.27, 'duration': 6.723}], 'summary': 'Standardized 3 bytes for pixel representation: 1 byte for red, 1 for green, 1 for blue.', 'duration': 29.852, 'max_score': 1176.141, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-441176141.jpg'}, {'end': 1365.821, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1341.408, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1347.271, 'text': 'that just means that a typical movie 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Obviously, it's going twice as fast.", 'start': 1503.231, 'duration': 3.983}, {'end': 1507.914, 'text': 'Is it correct? No.', 'start': 1507.314, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 1509.495, 'text': 'DAVID J.', 'start': 1507.934, 'duration': 1.561}, {'end': 1512.559, 'text': 'No, why is it not correct? Yeah, I might miss him.', 'start': 1509.495, 'duration': 3.064}, {'end': 1518.765, 'text': 'Mike just accidentally might eventually get sandwiched between two pages, and I have the unlucky experience of just missing him.', 'start': 1512.919, 'duration': 5.846}], 'summary': 'Searching method is slow and imperfect, but faster when done two at a time.', 'duration': 31.263, 'max_score': 1487.502, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-441487502.jpg'}, {'end': 1674.366, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1641.943, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1646.127, 'text': 'So the farther out you go this way, the more pages in the problem, the more pages in the phone book.', 'start': 1641.943, 'duration': 4.184}, {'end': 1649.47, 'text': "And the higher you go up here, the more seconds or page turns it's going to take.", 'start': 1646.307, 'duration': 3.163}, {'end': 1657.918, 'text': 'That first algorithm is just like a linear slope, so to 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{'end': 1711.362, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1683.55, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1690.232, 'text': 'well, in the second algorithm it will take half as many steps, plus or minus, 1 or 2, if you need to actually double back a little bit.', 'start': 1683.55, 'duration': 6.682}, {'end': 1693.193, 'text': "But that third algorithm is what we'll call logarithmic.", 'start': 1690.472, 'duration': 2.721}, {'end': 1699.496, 'text': 'If n is the number of pages in the phone book, the first algorithm, in the very worst case, might take all n pages to find Mike Smith.', 'start': 1693.333, 'duration': 6.163}, {'end': 1703.278, 'text': "The second algorithm is going to take half as many steps because I'm flying through it two at a time.", 'start': 1699.796, 'duration': 3.482}, {'end': 1706.84, 'text': 'But the third algorithm is going to look and feel like this.', 'start': 1703.558, 'duration': 3.282}, {'end': 1711.362, 'text': "It's going to be curved and ever so slowly rising and rising and 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'duration': 6.004}, {'end': 1813.909, 'text': 'And I could write this in any number of ways.', 'start': 1812.408, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 1819.293, 'text': "I've numbered the steps from 0 on up just for the sake of discussion, but this would seem to capture what I did there.", 'start': 1814.189, 'duration': 5.104}, {'end': 1820.414, 'text': 'Pick up the phone book.', 'start': 1819.553, 'duration': 0.861}], 'summary': 'Pseudocode uses english-like syntax to express algorithms, as seen in the example of picking up a phone book.', 'duration': 29.261, 'max_score': 1791.153, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-441791153.jpg'}], 'start': 1438.681, 'title': 'Algorithms and problem-solving', 'summary': 'Discusses algorithms for efficient search in a phone book, depicting the step-by-step process and the improvement in efficiency by dividing the search space in half. it also illustrates a logarithmic algorithm for 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The third algorithm is logarithmic, reducing a 1000-page problem to 1 page, implying minimal increase in steps for a doubled problem size.', 'The second algorithm reduces the problem size by half, enabling faster processing, with a 2 to 1 relationship for pages and steps. The second algorithm reduces the problem size by half, enabling faster processing, with a 2 to 1 relationship for pages and steps.', 'The first algorithm has a linear relationship, with one more second for each additional page in the book, resulting in a one-for-one relationship with pages. The first algorithm has a linear relationship, with one more second for each additional page in the book, resulting in a one-for-one relationship with pages.', 'Programming leverages intuition for effective problem-solving, emphasizing the importance of dividing and conquering problems and expressing in a way that computers can solve them. Programming leverages intuition for effective problem-solving, emphasizing the importance of dividing and conquering problems and expressing in a way that computers can solve them.', 'Pseudocode is proposed as a way of expressing algorithms in English-like syntax for precise understanding by computers or other individuals. 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6.502}, {'end': 1857.144, 'text': 'this would seem to capture more precisely that code.', 'start': 1854.083, 'duration': 3.061}, {'end': 1862.205, 'text': "Well, let's actually excerpt from this now a few concepts and then start to apply them to actual code.", 'start': 1857.364, 'duration': 4.841}, {'end': 1865.146, 'text': 'Highlighted in yellow here, I dare say, are all of the verbs.', 'start': 1862.645, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 1866.287, 'text': 'or actions.', 'start': 1865.566, 'duration': 0.721}, {'end': 1869.969, 'text': "These are the functions, as we're going to start calling them in this algorithm.", 'start': 1866.367, 'duration': 3.602}], 'summary': 'The transcript discusses shrinking a problem to fit on one page and identifying functions in an algorithm.', 'duration': 27.249, 'max_score': 1842.72, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-441842720.jpg'}, {'end': 1969.503, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1937.31, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1941.834, 'text': 'And then lastly, highlighted in yellow here, is go back to step two in a couple of places.', 'start': 1937.31, 'duration': 4.524}, {'end': 1943.495, 'text': 'This is inducing some kind of cycle.', 'start': 1941.874, 'duration': 1.621}, {'end': 1948.099, 'text': "or a loop that's telling the computer to do something again and again and again.", 'start': 1943.735, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 1951.983, 'text': 'So in short, we have these building blocks already conceptually.', 'start': 1948.42, 'duration': 3.563}, {'end': 1956.988, 'text': 'And it turns out we can now start to translate these to an actual programming language.', 'start': 1952.304, 'duration': 4.684}, {'end': 1960.152, 'text': "The first of the languages we'll introduce in CS50 is something called Scratch.", 'start': 1957.249, 'duration': 2.903}, {'end': 1964.737, 'text': "Turns out this is not a text-based language like in my English pseudocode there, but it's 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Saw your hand first.', 'start': 2054.831, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 2057.693, 'text': 'Come on down.', 'start': 2057.213, 'duration': 0.48}, {'end': 2059.887, 'text': 'So this is Oscar time.', 'start': 2058.726, 'duration': 1.161}, {'end': 2062.27, 'text': "It's implemented in a language called Scratch.", 'start': 2060.128, 'duration': 2.142}, {'end': 2070.119, 'text': 'And at the end of the day, all that is underneath the hood of this program is functions and loops and conditions and a few other of these concepts.', 'start': 2062.389, 'duration': 7.73}, {'end': 2071.201, 'text': "Hi, what's your name? Aviva.", 'start': 2070.139, 'duration': 1.062}, {'end': 2071.521, 'text': 'DAVID J.', 'start': 2071.221, 'duration': 0.3}, {'end': 2072.742, 'text': 'Aviva David, nice to meet you.', 'start': 2071.521, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 2073.643, 'text': 'Come on over here.', 'start': 2073.023, 'duration': 0.62}, {'end': 2147.276, 'text': "And in just a moment, I'm going to Thank you for coming on up.", 'start': 2075.145, 'duration': 72.131}, {'end': 2147.837, 'text': 'Thank you.', 'start': 2147.356, 'duration': 0.481}, {'end': 2149.363, 'text': 'Here, up, Aviva.', 'start': 2147.858, 'duration': 1.505}, {'end': 2153.653, 'text': 'A little CS50 stress ball.', 'start': 2152.452, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 2161.076, 'text': "So suffice it to say, if you're tired of this song, consider how tired I was eight hours later while debugging and building this program.", 'start': 2153.853, 'duration': 7.223}], 'summary': 'Using scratch, the speaker demonstrates programming a simple game, oscar time, implementing functions, loops, and conditions.', 'duration': 134.535, 'max_score': 2026.541, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442026541.jpg'}, {'end': 2213.586, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2187.369, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 2194.353, 'text': 'It was just a sequence of one, two, three or so images displaying and then going back down to create the illusion of animation.', 'start': 2187.369, 'duration': 6.984}, {'end': 2199.916, 'text': "Meanwhile, every time Oscar said something, That was keeping track of her score in what's called a variable.", 'start': 2194.593, 'duration': 5.323}, {'end': 2202.098, 'text': 'In algebra, you have x and y and z.', 'start': 2199.976, 'duration': 2.122}, {'end': 2207.041, 'text': "But in programming, you have the same idea, but it's generally more useful to call them more descriptively, like your score.", 'start': 2202.098, 'duration': 4.943}, {'end': 2213.586, 'text': "And so there's probably a variable in this game called score that was just keeping track of how many times Aviva had dropped something into the trash.", 'start': 2207.081, 'duration': 6.505}], 'summary': 'The lecture discusses the use of variables in programming and their practical application in keeping track of scores and game progress.', 'duration': 26.217, 'max_score': 2187.369, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442187369.jpg'}], 'start': 1812.408, 'title': 'Phone book algorithm and programming building blocks', 'summary': 'Discusses a phone book algorithm and introduces programming building blocks such as functions, conditions, boolean expressions, and loops, followed by an introduction to scratch, a graphical programming language, and a demonstration of a program decomposition. it provides a comprehensive overview of algorithmic concepts and programming basics.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1862.205, 'start': 1812.408, 'title': 'Phone book algorithm', 'summary': 'Discusses an algorithm for finding a specific name in a phone book by continuously shrinking the search space until the name is found, ultimately leading to a code implementation.', 'duration': 49.797, 'highlights': ['By continuously shrinking the problem size, the algorithm ensures efficient search.', 'The algorithm involves repeatedly dividing the search space and determining the next step based on the current position relative to the target name.', 'The approach demonstrates the concept of iterative problem-solving and illustrates its application in code implementation.']}, {'end': 2294.232, 'start': 1862.645, 'title': 'Programming building blocks and scratch introduction', 'summary': 'Introduces programming building blocks such as functions, conditions, boolean expressions, and loops, and then delves into the graphical programming language scratch, which facilitates students in learning algorithmic concepts, followed by a demonstration of a program that decomposes into basic building blocks and explains the variable concept.', 'duration': 431.587, 'highlights': ['The chapter introduces programming building blocks which include functions, conditions, Boolean expressions, and loops. 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Just saying hello world all the time isn't all that compelling.", 'start': 2355.679, 'duration': 4.642}], 'summary': "Demonstration of coding 'hello world' program with an ability to take input, executed successfully.", 'duration': 28.815, 'max_score': 2331.506, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442331506.jpg'}, {'end': 2396.03, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2372.914, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2379.919, 'text': "So this block here, ask something, by default it says, what's your name? And wait is another function built into Scratch that allows me to do this.", 'start': 2372.914, 'duration': 7.005}, {'end': 2381.4, 'text': "I'm going to go ahead and drag this here.", 'start': 2379.979, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 2387.164, 'text': "And I'm going to let it say, what's your name? Notice now that below this block is a special block.", 'start': 2382.12, 'duration': 5.044}, {'end': 2389.265, 'text': 'Whatever it is, the block returns.', 'start': 2387.684, 'duration': 1.581}, {'end': 2391.747, 'text': 'So answer is whatever the human is going to type in.', 'start': 2389.365, 'duration': 2.382}, {'end': 2396.03, 'text': 'And if I want to now save what the human typed in, let me go again to looks.', 'start': 2392.227, 'duration': 3.803}], 'summary': "Demonstrating scratch's 'ask' and 'wait' functions for user input.", 'duration': 23.116, 'max_score': 2372.914, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442372914.jpg'}, {'end': 2590.221, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2559.048, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 2561.949, 'text': 'that the sounds are kind of tripping over each other and just overlapping right?', 'start': 2559.048, 'duration': 2.901}, {'end': 2564.13, 'text': 'The block literally says start, sound meow.', 'start': 2562.169, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 2565.71, 'text': 'But computers are really fast.', 'start': 2564.37, 'duration': 1.34}, {'end': 2568.171, 'text': "If you've heard of the expression like gigahertz, that's a unit of measure.", 'start': 2565.75, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 2576.054, 'text': 'And if your computer has a 1 gigahertz CPU, central processing unit, or brain, that means it can literally do like a billion things per second.', 'start': 2568.411, 'duration': 7.643}, {'end': 2579.536, 'text': 'it can certainly start three sounds super fast.', 'start': 2576.374, 'duration': 3.162}, {'end': 2585.919, 'text': "And if they're effectively all happening one after the other before the sound even finishes, you're just hearing one net effect.", 'start': 2579.836, 'duration': 6.083}, {'end': 2590.221, 'text': 'So how can we fix this? 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'duration': 1.64}, {'end': 2701.989, 'text': 'And it was a lot less code.', 'start': 2700.789, 'duration': 1.2}, {'end': 2708.711, 'text': "And it's a lot easier to maintain, because if I want him to kind of get sleepy, I can then maybe say two seconds instead.", 'start': 2702.189, 'duration': 6.522}], 'summary': 'Simplified code to play a sound indefinitely, saving time and reducing complexity.', 'duration': 29.149, 'max_score': 2679.562, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442679562.jpg'}, {'end': 2931.594, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2905.004, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2908.725, 'text': 'Using unary, my old school hash mark approach, I can count to five on this hand.', 'start': 2905.004, 'duration': 3.721}, {'end': 2912.767, 'text': 'Using binary, I claimed I could count to 31 on this hand.', 'start': 2909.046, 'duration': 3.721}, {'end': 2914.227, 'text': "But it's still finite.", 'start': 2913.047, 'duration': 1.18}, {'end': 2917.889, 'text': 'I cannot count to infinity on this hand because I only have five fingers.', 'start': 2914.287, 'duration': 3.602}, {'end': 2922.851, 'text': 'Similarly, does a computer only have so many transistors or so many bytes or bits of memory?', 'start': 2917.949, 'duration': 4.902}, {'end': 2927.272, 'text': 'And at some point the programmer has to think about what is he or she going to do.', 'start': 2923.091, 'duration': 4.181}, {'end': 2931.594, 'text': "when the user wants to count so high that you can't physically fit it anymore.", 'start': 2927.272, 'duration': 4.322}], 'summary': 'Counting limitations: unary vs binary, finite capacity, programmer consideration.', 'duration': 26.59, 'max_score': 2905.004, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442905004.jpg'}], 'start': 2294.932, 'title': 'Scratch programming basics and sound effects', 'summary': 'Introduces scratch programming basics, covering event handling, user input, and function nesting, and explores programming sound effects in scratch, addressing challenges, looping for efficiency, and limitations of counting infinitely.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2487.706, 'start': 2294.932, 'title': 'Scratch programming basics', 'summary': 'Introduces scratch programming basics, including event handling, user input, and function nesting, demonstrating how to create a simple interactive program that greets the user and concatenates phrases.', 'duration': 192.774, 'highlights': ["The most powerful block in Scratch is 'when green flag clicked', which initiates the program and allows for constant listening for user input.", "Functions in Scratch can take inputs, demonstrated by the 'say' block taking the input 'hello world' and displaying it when the green flag is clicked.", "Scratch allows for user input through the 'ask' block, which retrieves user input and can be used in conjunction with other functions, such as 'say' and 'join', to create interactive programs."]}, {'end': 2959.533, 'start': 2487.966, 'title': 'Scratch programming and sound effects', 'summary': 'Explores programming sound effects in scratch, highlighting the challenges of overlapping sounds, introducing loops for efficient programming, and addressing the limitations of counting infinitely in a computer.', 'duration': 471.567, 'highlights': ["Introducing loops for efficient programming The chapter demonstrates the use of loops, specifically the 'forever' block, to efficiently play a sound and create a counting effect.", "Challenges of overlapping sounds The transcript discusses the challenge of overlapping sounds in programming, where multiple 'start sound meow' commands are executed so quickly that they appear to overlap, offering an explanation using computer processing speed.", 'Addressing limitations of counting infinitely in a computer The limitations of counting infinitely in a computer are highlighted, emphasizing the finite nature of digital storage and the need to address issues when counting exceeds physical limitations.']}], 'duration': 664.601, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442294932.jpg', 'highlights': ["The most powerful block in Scratch is 'when green flag clicked', initiating constant listening for user input.", "Scratch allows for user input through the 'ask' block, retrieving user input for interactive programs.", "Functions in Scratch can take inputs, demonstrated by the 'say' block displaying 'hello world' when the green flag is clicked.", "Introducing loops for efficient programming using the 'forever' block to play a sound and create a counting effect.", 'Challenges of overlapping sounds in programming, explained using computer processing speed.', 'Addressing limitations of counting infinitely in a computer due to finite digital storage.']}, {'end': 3451.827, 'segs': [{'end': 2990.086, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2959.853, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2963.055, 'text': "Let me open up this program and see if we can't read the code now.", 'start': 2959.853, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 2964.776, 'text': 'This is called pet0.', 'start': 2963.415, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 2968.518, 'text': 'And this is a program that simulates petting.', 'start': 2965.997, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 2973.601, 'text': "So if I click Play and don't touch the keyboard, nothing seems to be happening.", 'start': 2968.998, 'duration': 4.603}, {'end': 2978.264, 'text': 'But if I now move my cursor over to the cat, aw.', 'start': 2973.901, 'duration': 4.363}, {'end': 2979.27, 'text': 'Kind of cute.', 'start': 2978.769, 'duration': 0.501}, {'end': 2983.416, 'text': "Right now it's more only meowing on demand when you pet the cat.", 'start': 2979.951, 'duration': 3.465}, {'end': 2986.22, 'text': "Why? Well, notice I've added some other building blocks.", 'start': 2983.496, 'duration': 2.724}, {'end': 2990.086, 'text': "We haven't used this one before, but it intuitively probably makes pretty clear sense.", 'start': 2986.28, 'duration': 3.806}], 'summary': 'Demonstration of pet0 program simulating petting, cat meows on demand.', 'duration': 30.233, 'max_score': 2959.853, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442959853.jpg'}, {'end': 3256.595, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3232.807, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 3240.59, 'text': "And even just in my PDF I can simulate animation by hitting up arrow down arrow, up, arrow down arrow, because it kind of looks like he's walking now,", 'start': 3232.807, 'duration': 7.783}, {'end': 3244.331, 'text': 'when really your human eyes are just seeing two different pictures again and again.', 'start': 3240.59, 'duration': 3.741}, {'end': 3248.612, 'text': "So how can I do this? Well, if I go back to Scratch, he's still walking.", 'start': 3244.831, 'duration': 3.781}, {'end': 3256.595, 'text': 'Let me go ahead and open up Bounce 1, the second version of this, and now do this.', 'start': 3248.992, 'duration': 7.603}], 'summary': 'Simulating animation in pdf using up and down arrows, creating the illusion of walking in scratch and bounce 1.', 'duration': 23.788, 'max_score': 3232.807, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443232807.jpg'}, {'end': 3446.225, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3418.551, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3423.394, 'text': 'it followed the cursor because there was a forever loop and a block like this pointing toward the mouse pointer.', 'start': 3418.551, 'duration': 4.843}, {'end': 3427.817, 'text': "Well, now let's integrate multiple ideas and actually have multiple scripts.", 'start': 3423.834, 'duration': 3.983}, {'end': 3429.138, 'text': 'I proposed earlier.', 'start': 3428.237, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 3432.799, 'text': 'that programs can actually have multiple threads.', 'start': 3429.998, 'duration': 2.801}, {'end': 3441.683, 'text': 'A thread is just a fancy way of saying, in our context, multiple scripts, multiple scripts in one program that are happening essentially in parallel.', 'start': 3432.879, 'duration': 8.804}, {'end': 3446.225, 'text': 'A computer can effectively do multiple things at a time thanks to threading, and more on that down the road.', 'start': 3441.703, 'duration': 4.522}], 'summary': 'Programs can have multiple threads, allowing parallel execution, enhancing efficiency.', 'duration': 27.674, 'max_score': 3418.551, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443418551.jpg'}], 'start': 2959.853, 'title': 'Programming concepts and interactive animation', 'summary': 'Introduces programming concepts such as functions, loops, and conditions, and explores creating 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demonstrated in the examples.', 'duration': 151.73, 'highlights': ['The program combines functions with loops and conditions to anticipate user input and create interactive programs.', 'The forever loop is used to continuously listen for user input and respond accordingly, allowing the program to handle multiple scenarios.', "The program demonstrates the use of 'if' and 'else' conditions to create different responses based on user input, showcasing the versatility of programming logic.", 'The examples showcase the ability to create interactive programs that respond to user input, highlighting the practical application of programming concepts.']}, {'end': 3451.827, 'start': 3154.324, 'title': 'Animating scratch', 'summary': 'Explores creating animation in scratch, simulating walking, changing costumes, adding interactivity, and integrating multiple scripts, demonstrating the fundamental representation of animation as pictures and the ability to create interactive programs with multiple threads.', 'duration': 297.503, 'highlights': ["Creating animation in Scratch The transcript discusses simulating walking, changing costumes using the 'next costume' block, and adjusting movement speed to create animation.", "Simulating walking with quick photographs The speaker proposes simulating walking by taking quick photographs of the cat's leg movement, representing each photo as one step, demonstrating the concept of creating animation through a series of pictures.", "Adding interactivity with mouse interaction The chapter demonstrates the use of the 'point towards the mouse pointer' block to create interactive movement, akin to taking a cat for a walk, showcasing the potential for user interaction in Scratch programs.", 'Integrating multiple scripts for parallel execution The chapter introduces the concept of multiple threads, or scripts, in a program, enabling parallel execution and demonstrating the potential for complex and integrated functionalities in Scratch programs.']}], 'duration': 491.974, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-442959853.jpg', 'highlights': ['The program combines functions with loops and conditions to anticipate user input and create interactive programs.', "The program 'pet0' simulates petting a cat using boolean expressions and mouse interaction.", "Creating animation in Scratch The transcript discusses simulating walking, changing costumes using the 'next costume' block, and adjusting movement speed to create animation."]}, {'end': 4232.438, 'segs': [{'end': 3482.593, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3451.887, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 3453.568, 'text': 'And this one tends to be a little loud.', 'start': 3451.887, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 3463.005, 'text': 'So the sea lion is just barking endlessly, annoyingly.', 'start': 3458.783, 'duration': 4.222}, {'end': 3470.247, 'text': 'So by reading the code, how can I stop him from barking? Hit the space bar.', 'start': 3463.505, 'duration': 6.742}, {'end': 3472.228, 'text': 'All right, so hit the space bar.', 'start': 3470.267, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 3478.111, 'text': "OK, I could just stop the program, obviously, but this program's still running technically.", 'start': 3473.769, 'duration': 4.342}, {'end': 3482.593, 'text': 'But why did that work? 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3611.104, 'text': 'He is starting only when he receives an event.', 'start': 3608.243, 'duration': 2.861}, {'end': 3616.005, 'text': "So it turns out that sprites in Scratch can't hear or see what the other one is saying in those speech bubbles.", 'start': 3611.364, 'duration': 4.641}, {'end': 3619.906, 'text': 'You have to use a fancier technique, which is this special block called broadcast,', 'start': 3616.305, 'duration': 3.601}, {'end': 3626.608, 'text': 'which is like passing a note digitally from one sprite to another that the other one can read or receive, so to speak.', 'start': 3619.906, 'duration': 6.702}, {'end': 3630.149, 'text': 'So only when he receives this event, so to speak, does he say polo.', 'start': 3626.868, 'duration': 3.281}, {'end': 3631.35, 'text': 'for two seconds.', 'start': 3630.629, 'duration': 0.721}, {'end': 3635.192, 'text': 'And again the orange puppet sends that secret message.', 'start': 3631.45, 'duration': 3.742}], 'summary': 'In scratch, sprites communicate using broadcast events, not speech bubbles, to trigger actions.', 'duration': 29.85, 'max_score': 3605.342, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443605342.jpg'}, {'end': 3696.174, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3663.931, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 3667.092, 'text': 'First, we started out with just functions and conditions and Boolean expressions and loops.', 'start': 3663.931, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 3672.314, 'text': "We've now added to that the ability to store information and variables and threads to do multiple things at once.", 'start': 3667.332, 'duration': 4.982}, {'end': 3678.916, 'text': 'And then if you do have multiple things happening, events where they can intercommunicate somehow, yet another building block.', 'start': 3672.574, 'duration': 6.342}, {'end': 3688.467, 'text': 'So if we now take a step back and consider how we can make functions of our own, we have the final piece of the puzzle, so to speak.', 'start': 3679.216, 'duration': 9.251}, {'end': 3689.368, 'text': 'Let me go ahead and do this.', 'start': 3688.507, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 3696.174, 'text': 'Let me go ahead and create a simple program with when green flag clicked that simply simulates coughing for a cat.', 'start': 3689.728, 'duration': 6.446}], 'summary': 'Introduction to programming concepts including functions, variables, threads, and events, culminating in creating a simple coughing simulation program.', 'duration': 32.243, 'max_score': 3663.931, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443663931.jpg'}, {'end': 3916.84, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3890.907, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3895.249, 'text': "And so, just as MIT has given us so much functionality that we ourselves don't have to think about,", 'start': 3890.907, 'duration': 4.342}, {'end': 3897.851, 'text': "so can I now make functionality that I don't have to think about?", 'start': 3895.249, 'duration': 2.602}, {'end': 3903.034, 'text': "And as we progress to higher level languages like C and JavaScript and Python, we're going to continue this process,", 'start': 3898.111, 'duration': 4.923}, {'end': 3906.896, 'text': 'sometimes solving problems ourselves by making our own custom puzzle pieces.', 'start': 3903.034, 'duration': 3.862}, {'end': 3911.558, 'text': 'but very often using things called libraries code that other humans wrote before us.', 'start': 3907.116, 'duration': 4.442}, {'end': 3916.84, 'text': "that's just useful to get the job done, just as Scratch has done here, in part for us.", 'start': 3911.558, 'duration': 5.282}], 'summary': 'Using libraries and higher-level languages like c, javascript, and python to solve problems and get the job done efficiently.', 'duration': 25.933, 'max_score': 3890.907, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443890907.jpg'}], 'start': 3451.887, 'title': 'Controlling sea lion sound and integrating scripts and creating functions', 'summary': "Explains how to control a sea lion sound in a program by toggling the sound on and off based on the user's action, ultimately muting or unmuting the sea lion sound. it also explores integrating multiple scripts for interactive results, simulating signaling mechanisms with puppets, and creating functions to avoid repetitive code, highlighting using loops and custom puzzle pieces.", 'chapters': [{'end': 3542.26, 'start': 3451.887, 'title': 'Controlling sea lion sound', 'summary': "Explains how to control a sea lion sound in a program by using code to toggle the sound on and off based on the user's action of hitting the space bar, ultimately muting or unmuting the sea lion sound.", 'duration': 90.373, 'highlights': ['By reading the code, the chapter demonstrates how to stop a sea lion from barking by toggling the sound on and off using the space bar.', "The program sets a variable 'muted' to false when the green flag is clicked, and then toggles it to true if the space bar is pressed, effectively muting or unmuting the sea lion sound.", "The script controlling the sea lion sound continuously checks the 'muted' variable, and if it is false, the sea lion sound is played, otherwise, the sound is not played."]}, {'end': 4232.438, 'start': 3542.48, 'title': 'Integrating scripts and creating functions', 'summary': 'Explores integrating multiple scripts for interactive results, simulating signaling mechanisms with puppets, and creating functions to avoid repetitive code, highlighting using loops and custom puzzle pieces.', 'duration': 689.958, 'highlights': ['Creating functions and avoiding repetitive code The chapter explores the concept of creating functions to avoid repetitive code, exemplifying the use of loops to condense the program and the creation of custom puzzle pieces to abstract implementation details.', 'Simulating signaling mechanisms with puppets The chapter demonstrates how to simulate signaling mechanisms using puppets, showcasing the use of broadcast to enable intercommunication between sprites in Scratch.', 'Integrating multiple scripts for interactive results The chapter discusses integrating multiple scripts to achieve interactive results, highlighting the ability to store information, use variables, and implement threads for multitasking in Scratch.']}], 'duration': 780.551, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/F0WoVEr0-44/pics/F0WoVEr0-443451887.jpg', 'highlights': ["The program sets a variable 'muted' to false when the green flag is clicked, and then toggles it to true if the space bar is pressed, effectively muting or unmuting the sea lion sound.", "The script controlling the sea lion sound continuously checks the 'muted' variable, and if it is false, the sea lion sound is played, otherwise, the sound is not played.", 'Integrating multiple scripts for interactive results 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