My 4th Script: Intermediate Words
howto_userMy 4th Script shows the eight words to be remembered using a “for-loop” rather than typing out the steps eight times (like in My 1st Script). This is a more concise and less error-prone way to produce an identical task.
Topics introduced: var, arrays, for-loop
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var i;
var vocab = ["apple","chair","tent","bowl","clock","bike","tree","cat"];
instruction("Remember as many of the following eight words as you can.");
/* This is called a "for-loop". It means we don't have to retype the same steps
over and over. The arguments translate to "start counting with i equalling 0,
keep repeating the loop (i.e., the steps inside the curly brackets) as long as
i is less than the number of elements in "vocab" (i.e., 7 because counting
starts at 0), and increase i by 1 each time that the loop is completed.*/
for (i = 0; i < vocab.length; i = i + 1)
{
text(vocab[i]); // Instead of writing the word to be shown inside the
await(2000); // brackets, we simply refer to the i-th position of "vocab"
clear();
await(1000);
}
largeinput("Please type the words that you can remember.","words_recalled");
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