Video Game Design
Video Game Design – 0616 Half Year
1/2 Credit Grades 10 – 12
Prerequisite: None
Want to gain experience in the growing video game industry? This course provides an introduction to computer programming for students with no previous programming experience. You will have the opportunity to research potential career opportunities in the gaming field as well as learn how to design, develop and market video games. Using the program Alice, as a tool that enables computer novices to create computer animations using a drag-and-drop interface, you will skip the initial frustrations normally associated with learning how to program computers. Topics include simple data types, control structures; an introduction to array and string data structures and algorithms; recursion; and event driven-programming.
The program, Alice, is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools (and sometimes even younger) to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to java courses.