CS1 - 1112 - October
From WLCS
Monday (10/31/11)
Agenda:
- Demo Whac-A-Mole game
- Demo missing assignments
- 1st Quarter Exam review?
Thursday - Friday (10/27/11 - 10/28/11)
Agenda:
- 1st Period - 1st Quarter Exam on Friday (10/28/11) - Follow the directions on the handout.
- Write your name on the handout
- Return the handout at the end of class. You will not receive credit without it
- 3rd Period - Review for the 1st Quarter Exam, which is on Tuesday/Wednesday (11/1/11 - 11/2/11)
- Complete Whac-A-Mole game
Monday - Wednesday (10/24/11 - 10/26/11)
Agenda:
- 1st Quarter Exam Review
- Comprised of concepts that we have done in any of our Scratch projects
- Closed-person, open-book, open-note
- You will e-mail your program in at the end of class
- Scratch - Moving and Drawing Assignment
- Scratch - Sound Board Assignment
- Animations with dialog, costume changes, and graphic effects
- Avoidance Game (see 9/26/11)
- Frogger (see 9/28/11)
- Item collection game
- Robot game
- Whac-A-Mole game
- Complete Whac-A-Mole game
Wednesday - Thursday (10/19/11 - 10/20/11)
Warmup:
- Google "logical and" and decipher what it means
- Google "logical or" and decipher what it means
- Hint: You may have learned these in geometry class...
Agenda:
- Complete and demo Robot game. Make sure you have all the required components.
- Begin working on Whac-A-Mole game
Monday - Tuesday (10/17/11 - 10/18/11)
Agenda:
- Demo Item collection game
- Complete and demo Robot game. Make sure you have all the required components.
- If you have completed Robot game, then try implementing some of its "advanced features"
Tuesday - Friday (10/11/11 - 10/14/11)
Agenda:
- Upcoming Games List (tentative)
- Frogger
- Item Collection - collect items and avoid mines
- Robot - enemy robot follows you around
- Whac-a-Mole
- Dodge - dangerous items fall from the sky
- Pong
- Pac Man
- Tron
- Brick Breaker (Breakout)
- Space Invaders
- Asteroids
- Missile Command
- Any others?
- Complete and demo Item collection game
- Begin working on Robot game
Thursday - Friday (10/6/11 - 10/7/11)
Agenda:
- Complete and demo Item collection game
Wednesday (10/5/11)
Warmup:
- Open TextEdit or MS Word
- With a partner, come up with a list of as many game features as you can
Agenda:
- Commonalities between games
- Item collection game
- Player moves around
- Player can pickup items
- Player avoids "mines"
- Player wins when all items are picked up
- Player loses when he/she hits a mine
Monday - Tuesday (10/3/11 - 10/4/11)
Agenda:
- Complete your Frogger Game, and demo to Mr. Bui
- If you are done with basic Frogger, then try implementing the following advanced features:
- Background music
- Sounds when you move the frog
- The enemy sprites constantly change costume back and forth (makes it look like they're moving)
- Health/Lives power-up (when picked up, you get a new life)
- Increasingly difficult levels
