Video Games, Day 2

Hopper section: Friday, January 2, 2015; Lovelace section: Monday, January 5, 2015

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

Materials

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

• 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

• Assignment: Video game lab