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     With so many programming languages available, trying to keep them all straight can be overwhelming. From my experience so far, it seems like a lot of programming is trial and error.      Building my program in Scratch took some time as I started over four or five times before I got the hang of things. I am very much a tactile learner, so being able to “play” with the program and try out how each command works was great for me. I enjoyed being able to see how things were turning out as I added each block. The difficulty I kept having was my characters seemed to have minds of their own and as I set them to move, they would also rotate to end up upside down. They were also bunching up in the middle of the screen. Setting the coordinates of their starting positions, setting them to bounce off the edges of the screen and then setting the same ending coordinates as they started from solved the problems I was having initially.      ...