Your first assignment for HyperCard involves combining painting
and word processing. You will create a picture in HyperCard, then you
will paste it into the scrapbook. Then, after closing the
HyperCard document, open a WORD document and paste it into the WORD
document.
First, it's important to understand how the scrapbook works. Under
the apple menu, there is scrapbook. This is a book that
you can paste pictures in, and you can use these whenever you
want--whether you are painting, writing, or whatever. Look through
the scrapbook, and you'll see some pictures that are already there
waiting for you.
Step 1: Draw a picture in HyperCard. As part of the assignment, it
is important to use as many of the tools as possible . Use the
pencil, the brushes, lots of different patterns, etc. It doesn't
really matter if you're an artist, but use lots of tools!
Step 2: SELECT the picture.
Step 3: Choose Copy from the Edit menu. This makes a copy of the
picture on the clipboard. The clipboard in the memory can hold one
picture or piece of selected text.
Step 4: Choose Scrapbook from the Apple menu.
Step 5: Choose Paste from the Edit menu. This will paste your
picture into the scrapbook. Don't worry that it looks like you're
pasting on top of a picture that's already there; you aren't.
Step 6: Close the HyperCard document (save it first, of course),
and open a new Microsoft WORD document.
Step 7: Put your name, the date, and "HyperCard Assignment #1 in
the upper right corner of this document.
Step 8: Put the cursor on the left side below these headings.
Step 9: Open the Scrapbook from the Apple menu. Find your picture
by scrolling to the left or the right.
Step 10: Choose copy from the edit menu.
Step 11: Choose paste from the edit menu. Your picture should
appear.
Step 12: Below your picture, write a paragraph about how you feel
using the computer -- Do you like it? Do you like painting? Do you
like writing? Do you feel modern & intelligent, or do you feel
stupid and clumsy? You can compare yourself with other people in the
class, with your friends, with your mother, if you like. Your
paragraph should be clearly written and it should have a topic
sentence.
Step 13: Save, print, & turn in your work to the teacher.
Khalifa Al-Romaithi
6/10/97
Painting Assignment #1
It is true that the computer is on of the most important machine in the world. I am so successful while I using the computer. It is very useful machine which help me in my studying so I like it too much. Furthermore, computer has many programs such as typing, Netscape, and e-mail. Those programs are better than old ways such as writing by hand , sending letters by mail and searching the information from books. They are faster and easier to use.
This semester is different from last semester, for example, I'm studying more information about computer. I almost know how to use the e-mail and the Microsoft word. Moreover, we started to study painting and painting program is very exciting. I like it so much, however, I'm not a good painter.
Now, I know how to draw picture and paste it with my writing and that is very important because when you drew a picture with some writing , your picture is giving the people attention and description about what you wrote. However, that depends about how your picture was. For example, in the top of this page I drew a picture that shows one of the traditional boats in my country. Our ancestors used this boat to travel from place t other, but today we use it for racing boats.
I feel modern and intelligent when people like my writing, however, if they don't like it I feel stupid and clumsy so I don't like writing very much.
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Updated: 2/22/98