notes

mintMovesleft = mintDice

picDaffy.left = picDaffy.left + cSquare

MintMoves = mintMoves -1

Loop Until mintMoves = 0 or picDaffy.left + csquare > (picboard.left+picboard.width)

If mintMoves > 0 then

picDaffy.top = picDaffy.top – clip

If mintMoves >0

p moveleft

End If

End If

End Sub

Notes

lintDiceRoll – set to random

lintmoves = lintdice roll

Repeat

           Move piece lintSquare

          lintmoves = lintmoves -1

Until lintMoves = 0 or (piece + lintSquare) > picBoard left + picBoard.width

VB NOTES

object.property=value

-> From left to right: picCharacter.Left = picCharacter.Left +25

<- From right to left picCharacter.Left = picCharacter.Left -25

^ From down to up picCharacter.Top = picCharacter.Top -25

v From up to down picCharacter.Top = picCharacter.Top +25

Excerise 9.8

Questions:

1.

2.

Begin

          Get slice of bread

          Get butter

          Open butter

          Get knife

          Get butter on knife

          Use knife to put butter on bread

          Wash knife

          Close butter

          Put butter away

          Put knife away

          Eat buttered bread

End

Excerise 9.6

Questions:

1. a) Plug the microwave into the power

b) Open microwave door

c) Place the food into the microwave

d) Close microwave door

e) Select time

f) Press start

g) Remove food when timer rings

2. Go to the table where the telephone is located and only if it rings pick it up and talk to the person.

3. INPUT: cake mixture when made

PROCESSING: place cake in oven. When cake is done take out of oven

OUTPUT: eat the cake

Excerise 9.5

Questions:

1. Radio button – to select only 1 option

Check box – to select 1 or more options

Text – to add text to a certain place

Picture – to add a picture to a certain place or background

Scroll up/down – to move up and down of the page

2. GUI or graphical user interface is a user friendly programming environment which is simple and east to use for novice or beginning programmers. This type of programming allows the programmer to place objects  into their programs such as buttons, text boxes and data. They also allow the use of a wide range of data types. The smallest item of meaniful data used in any program is a character. Numeric data may be either integers or real numbers, also called decimals. Any series of characters is known as a string with a special use of variables called the boolean data type used to hold only two possible outputs, such as a YES and NO.

3.

Data to be handled	Unique identifier	Data type
Eg. Your first name	Eg. FirstName	Eg. String
Number of students	No.stdnts	Integer
Your birthday	Dob	Date
Test results	Score	Real number
Your gender	Gender	boolean