Video Games, Day 2
Hopper section: Friday, January 2, 2015; Lovelace section: Monday, January 5, 2015
Plan for the day
Plan for the day
- Opening Circle
- How to act in the face of ignorance
- L1
- Group Code refresher of video game
- Start working on assignment in pairs
- L2
- Work in pairs on Brick Breaker
- Teach yourself about mouse input
- Build paddle
- Group Code of bricks
- Pairs program bricks
- Work in pairs on Brick Breaker
Materials
Level 1 Lesson
Level 1 Lesson
- Using a Search Engine: lecture slides exercise
- Refresher: conditionals in video games: Collaborative Code exercise.
- Assignment: Create a video game similar to this one
- Make a character that moves with the arrows.
- Make a moving prize the character tries to get.
Level 2 Lesson
Level 2 Lesson
- Using a Search Engine: lecture slides exercise
- Assignment: Brick Breaker video game
- Continue programming a bouncing ball: JavaScript sandbox
- Mouse interactions in JavaScript: Learn On Your Own
- Program a moving paddle
- Make the ball bounce off the paddle, fall through the floor.
- On to bricks!
Level 3 Lesson
Level 3 Lesson
- Assignment: Video game lab