Games

Table Tennis (TT) is considered a sport in my players eyes, but to many people it is just Ping Pong (PP). But there is a difference. So how can you tell the difference between TT and PP. Ariel Hsing, Olympic bad-ass and number 1 American female player, says Footwork is paramount.
"You use your hands in ping-pong," Hsing says, "but you use your feet to play table tennis."You hit a PP ball, but you spin a TT ball...PP is cheap, and TT can be expensive...TT is best of 7 to 11...there's an etiquette, if you're up 10-0, you mis-hit a serve to be polite."

Hosting the Olympic games has much appeal for a prospective host city: basking in the light of the world stage for three weeks, and of course the billions in revenue from tourists. In the past many cities have gained much acclaim and profits from hosting. However, for many cities, hosting the games can prove detrimental.

Basketball season is finally here in so many different ways. Both the boys' and girls' Judge teams kicked off their seasons this past week, with us girls at Jordan High School and the boys at home against Bingham. Although both varsity teams lost their season opener, it's looking to be a promising year for both squads. Come support your Judge teams and watch us this week on Friday night with the girls at home against Juab at 7:30 and the boys away at Riverton at 7.

Last week in technology, our class was asked to make a simple game of pong on Scratch. The assignment included four levels of things to add onto your version of the game, and each one was more difficult that the previous one. The link that we were given to help our class learn how to make the pong game is: http://learnscratch.org/sc3-u3/sc3-l12. There were three video tutorials that I found very helpful and easy to understand. I thought that using the tutorials were a great way of leaning how to make a game.

An in class assignment we had to do in technology was to make a set of games, including classic pong, pong with our own personal touch, and break out. We had to use the program Scratch and we were allowed to use a tutorial (http://learnscratch.org/sc3-u3/sc3-112). The video tutorial was decent. It was descriptive and easy to follow but if I had a question it could not answer it. The tutorial was good because I could pause the video whenever I wanted to, making my life easier. Overall the tutorial was decent but I prefer a teacher.

This is my first scratch game called "Pong". I created this game by watching a video tutorial. http://learnscratch.org/sc3-u3/sc3-l12

On Day 4 of our unit, we watched tutorials to help us make our first games on Scratch. I liked using the tutorials because I could work at my own pace. I could pause the video any time I wanted so that I could try out one of the new techniques and then start playing it again. If I don't understand anything, I could just go back and watch any part of the video as many times as I need to.

There were some advantages using the tutorial on the Scratch website, but disadvantages as well. For example, we were able to pause or rewind the video according to what you mean. We could ask the teacher to repeat what he says, but after a while the students may get annoyed, and so would the teacher. I also liked how there was a person not only showing but telling how to make the Scratch animation, which made it easier. But it felt like some parts were unexplained, and we can't ask the video, like we could ask the teacher.

This is the first of the three levels of the pong Star Trek game I made up.
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, ad it remains the property of Paramount Pictures.

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I had fun creating my first game in Scratch. To make this game I watched a tutorial on how to make the game Pong. I enjoyed watching the video and also learned how to make the game Pong. There were many things I liked about learning this way. One thing was that from looking at how Pong was made I can incorporate the same techniques to my game and make it similar to Pong. I had about the same scripts except my game had two balls, the speed of the balls were different and other things different from the tutorial.

    Not all games are the same. Some are board games , e-games , video games and computer games played for amusement. Other games seem  to be designed to teach a lesson or to work your brain. They want the men , women, boys ands girls to receive something useful out of the games. When others are played just for fun.  Most games have the same goal to have fun ! and try to win.  I enjoy playing some games not all though . When i get bored which happens pretty often i try to find a game that entertains me .