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Crocodile ICT Online Training Course

This training course offers a comprehensive introduction to using Crocodile ICT. It starts with a step-by-step overview of how to set up flowcharts and control the on-screen characters, and moves on to cover a wide range of techniques to make your programs more varied and interesting.

Duration: approximately 30 minutes; course leader: Julie Gray

Writing a Program

Shows how to write programs using flowcharts, set up a simple dance routine, control the speed of your flowchart, give actions to characters and change backgrounds.

Easy, 5 mins 43 secs

Variables and Loops

Shows how to make a program run in a loop, count how many times the loop has run, set variables in your programs and make decisions based on variable values.

Easy, 2 mins 25 secs

Functions

Shows how to include functions in your programs, call functions from the main routine and pass parameters to functions

Easy, 3 mins 32 secs

On-screen Properties

Shows how to start programs when specific events happen, investigate properties of characters and control properties of characters.

Medium, 2 mins 24 secs

Event handlers

Shows how to start flowcharts using event handlers, which are activated when a certain condition is met - such as a character being in a particular position.

Medium, 8 mins 52 secs

Controlling Pictures

Shows how to control images with your flowcharts, use buttons as inputs, hide programs inside popup windows, start a program when a button is pressed and read and change on-screen properties.

Medium, 4 mins 34 secs

Built-in Functions

Shows how to use and modify variables in your programs, generate random numbers, round off to a whole number, use built-in functions in expressions, monitor variable values as your program runs and understand error messages.

Advanced, 3 mins 6 secs

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