Unit 3

Overview: In this unit, you will learn how to make mobile games involving animation. You will build four apps total:

1. Mushroom Chase: Use keyboard inputs to have Mario chase a mushroom

2. Android Mash: a simple game similar to Whack-a-Mole, where you have to touch a sprite quickly before it disappears

3. Pong: a classic arcade game similar to ping pong (table tennis), where a user moves a paddle to hit a ball

4. Creative Animated App: your own creation!

Learning Objectives: In this unit, you will learn to:

• • animate sprite movement using the canvas and clock component

  • animate sprite movement using the image sprite components

  • program random movement

  • increment (increase) variable values

  • build a countdown timer

  • create a score label

  • define and call a procedure

Computer Science Concepts:

• procedures

• variables

• conditionals

• event handlers

App Inventor Concepts & Components:

• touch interface

• image sprites

• Canvas

• clock (and timer)

• coordinate system

• random numbers

• operators

• global variables