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1. Let's see what the Adventurers are up to! 2. (Group Activity) Talk about our first month 3. Get rid of Scratchy the Cat 4. Create your January page 5. Create your February page 6. Switch between pages with code 7. Create your March page 8. Show all your pages in a row 9. Add three more months 10. Share your projects! 11. (optional) Finish the entire year

Project 465: Merry Months

8. Show all your pages in a row

Now, let's write some code to show all your pages in a row! When you hit the "space" key, you should be able to see all the backdrops you made. What code blocks do you think will be important here?
Starting point file for this challenge

Your goal

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Steps

1. Start in January when the space key is pressed

First, we'll need to add an event that checks if the space key is pressed and sets the background to January. Drag in a "when ____ key pressed" block from the yellow Events section. Then drag in a "switch backdrop to _____" block from the dark purple Looks section and make sure it's set to January. 

2. Add code to switch your backdrop twice

We want to go through each backdrop, but if we do it too quickly, we won't see anything. So we should wait for a bit each time before switching. Drag in a "wait __ seconds" block from the orange Control section and then drag in a "next backdrop" block from the dark purple Looks section. Then do it again by draging in another "wait __ seconds" block and "next backdrop" block. 

3. Fix repeating code with a loop

Do you see any code repeating at all? There's a pattern of "wait 1 second" and "next backdrop" that happens twice! Anytime you see repeating code, it's not good. It means it's going to take a lot of work if we want to add 3 more backdrops. You can fix this problem with loops! Add a "repeat ___" loop from the orange Control section and wrap it around the two repeating blocks of code. Then you can just change the number of times the loop repeats instead of dragging in the same code over and over again.