ECT Pencil Code Program: Stroke Order of a Chinese Character
At a glance…
Core subject(s) | English-Language Arts; Computer Science | ||
Subject area(s) | Language; Programming Fundamentals | ||
Suggested age | 8 to 18 years old | ||
Overview
Use this program to illustrate the stroke order of a chinese character by having students create their own rendering of a Chinese character, being careful to draw the strokes in the right order. Have students analyze or fill in or change parts of the program. This program could be used to further your understanding of how you could use Pencil Code in the classroom, as a demonstration or discussion with your students, or as a way to introduce various CT concepts, such as pattern recognition or abstraction, to your students by inviting them to extend the existing functionality of the program.
Pencil Code Program
Copy/Paste the following program into a ‘Blank Editor’ on the Pencil Code website (new.pencilcode.net)
# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. chgrid = (size) -> d = size * sqrt 2 pen gray, 0.5 for [1..4] for [1..4] fd size; rt 90 rt 45; fd d; bk d; rt 45 chgrid(150) pen blue, 5 pen off movexy -25, 125 pen on rt 135 fd 50 pen off movexy -75, -40 lt 45 pen on fd 65 rt 90 fd 175 rt 135 fd 40 pen off movexy -75, 95 rt 135 pen on fd 75 rt 135 fd 130 pen off movexy +200, +120 pen on rt 25 fd 75 pen off fd 5 pen on lt 120 fd 150 |
Sample Output
Additional Information and Resources
Computational Thinking Concepts*
Concept | Definition | |
Abstraction | Identifying and extracting relevant information to define main idea(s) | |
Pattern Recognition | Observing patterns, trends, and regularities in data | |
* Explore the Computational Thinking Concepts Guide for a list of the CT concepts noted on ECT, including tips for implementing each concept in your classroom
Additional Resource Links
- Visit http://pencilcode.net/ to explore the Pencil Code development environment
- See Pencil Code: A Programming Primer for more than 100 example programs written in CoffeeScript
Administrative Details
Contact info | For more info about Exploring Computational Thinking (ECT), visit the ECT website (g.co/exploringCT) |
Credits | Developed by the Exploring Computational Thinking team at Google and reviewed by K-12 educators from around the world. |
Last updated on | 06/09/2015 |
Copyright info | Except as otherwise noted, the content of this document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. |
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