1. Spanish Mad libs with Scratch

2. Mad Libs Concepts Ask the player for words Store the words
Display the story
Variable – something that changes
Strings are groups of characters

3. What’s a variable? Give me an example?
A container to store a value
Give me an example?
In shapes drawing program the number of sides in the shape might be a variable
Or length of side

4. What’s a STRING? Give me an example? Name in a Leader board
A type of data or value made of words, letters, spaces or numbers
A group of characters
You can join two strings together You need to add spacing between strings
Give me an example?
Name in a Leader board
Mad Libs words
Title of a track, film, book

5. Project Description
We will ask the user some questions and then create a "madlib" from the answers

6. Big Picture Delete the cat sprite Choose a sprite from a file
Do set-up
Make all the variables
Ask user a question
Set answer to a the variable
Duplicate the script for the number of variable in your story
Create a string to say the result
Delete the cat sprite
Choose a sprite from a file
Program the sprite
Create a script

7. Creating a Variable Go to the Data category Click on "Make a Variable"
Give your variable a unique name
For example verb1, food, etc.
When you create a list you get new tiles (blocks) that help you work with the list. The list will automatically be displayed. You can turn this off by unchecking the checkbox.

8. Program the Sprite
We want to ask the user a question for each changing word in your story
Name
Favorite color
Favorite Animal
Use the "ask and wait" tile in the Sensing category

9. Saving the answers
Each time we ask a question the answer is put in the answer tile – in Sensing
To save the answers let's add them to a variable

10. Set-up and ask questions
When the green flag is clicked
Hide variable answers
Show the plain background
Ask each question
Set each answer to the variable

11. Display your MAD Lib with ANSWERS
Create a new Background
Type the story leave spaces for words the user gives
Use Vector Mode
Using multiple joins
You can use more than one join
First drag out one join. Then add another in the second slot. Then add a third in the 2nd slot of the 2nd. Then drag out the item at position in list.

12. Displaying the MadLib You can join two strings together
Using join tile from Operators
You can get an item from a position in the list

13. Using variables with strings
You can make a variable
Like sentence
You can set the variable to the result of a join
Remember to include spaces

14. Final Code

15. Senor Salzman’s Scratch SPANISH Mad Libs Example

16. Extra time Change cat sprite
Make the cat glide and speak
Click the cat see the x,y
Go to coordinate graph x,y
Change the sprite costume
Or right click on the cat and select delete

17. Extra time Choose a new Sprite
Select the choose a sprite from a file
Go to the People category
Pick a sprite to use