Year 8 DIT - Arcade

Which menu contains the option to setup a tile map in Arcade?

• In the Music menu

• In the Scene menu

• In the Logic menu

• In the Controller menu

Select the answers which are correct:

I can set up the following items using options from the Info menu

• Score

• Life

• Countdown

• Tilemaps

What does a While loop do?

• Repeats an action while a condition is correct

• Repeats an action a set number of times

• Repeats an action forever

What is a variable used for in programming?

• To vary things

• To hold the value of information that stays the same

• To hold the value of information that may change

• I have forgotten

True or False?

A sprite is a special variable that represents a character or object

• False

• True

Which computational thinking strategy does this image represent?

• Pattern matching

• Algorithms

Which computational thinking strategy works best when trying to understand a large problem or task?

• Decomposition

• Pattern Matching

• Algorithms

• Abstraction

What is a Boolean variable?

• A variable with a strange name

• A variable from the planet Boo

• I can't remember

• A special type of variable that has values of True or False only

Why would you use a Function in programming?

(there is more than 1 correct answer)

• To allow reuse of common actions based on different events or conditions

• To make the code more modular

• To make the code more complicated and complex

• To simplify testing

In Arcade, what does the Animation functionality do?

• Makes sprite images change based on the direction they are moving in

• I've forgotten

• I don't know

• Makes sprite images hop up and down 5 times