Sonic-Pi

For the next few questions you need to first watch the first 14 minutes of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU

What did the students answer when Sam asked them why they bothered to read and write if they are not going to become a professional writer?

• So I can express myself

• So I can read contracts

• So I can write it down and later come back to it and read it again

• So I can keep a dairy

• If someone can't read or write I can teach them because they are disadvantaged

True or False?

The fundamental thing Sam Aaron is talking about is: Just as you are not learning to read and write to become a professional writer, you are not learning to code to become a professional coder.

• True

• False

What does Sam Aaron say is so great about numbers?

• You can add them

• They can go up and they can go down

• You can add lots of numbers

• You can combine the numbers

When you code music and you code play and a number, what changes when you make the number go up?

• The music is faster

• The pitch goes up

• The pitch goes down

• The music is slower

What did the tweet say about how this guy annoyed his dog?

• He made barking sounds

• He made explosive sounds

• He made sounds like cats

• He was coding really high beeps

What does Sam Aaron say is the thing with kids and games?

• Kids want instant satisfaction

• Kids will rather play than learn

• Kids have very high expectations

• Kids want to learn though playing games

What is the live loop?

• The loop is alive

• It is similar to other coding programs

• It is like other loops and goes around

• It is a loop that you can change while playing

What will happen when I code this:

play 60

play 62

play 64

play 60

• It will play a melody with those 4 notes

• It will sound like a chord because the notes will play together at the same time

If you want Sonic-pi to play each note in a sequence, you have to tell the software to take a break every now and then. How?

• play 60

  sleep 1

  play 62

  sleep 1

  play 64

  sleep 1

  play 60

• play 60

  stop 1

  play 62

  stop 1

  play 64

  stop 1

  play 60

You can write the notes in _____ , which is basically numbers

between 0 and 127

• MIDI

• MIPI

• MINI

• DINI