CS1 - November

Thursday - Monday (11/20/08 - 11/24/08)

   * Complete your CYOA Game
   * Make sure your flow chart is printed out
   * Speed Dating Gaming 

[edit] Friday - Tuesday (11/14/08 - 11/18/08)

   * Finish CYOA Game flowchart designs
         o Flowcharting explained
         o Boxes should be used for content and tasks
         o Diamonds should be used for decisions 
   * Begin coding your CYOA Game
   * CYOA Game will be due on Thursday (11/20/08) 

[edit] Wednesday (11/12/08)

Warmup:

   * Mr. Bui has a problem. He needs a piece of paper to fly from the back of the room (where the fan is) to the front of the room (where the SmartBoard is) and land in the recycling box.
   * Take out a sheet of paper
   * Construct some sort of contraption that will solve Mr. Bui's problem
   * If you can land in the box, then you will be "sugarly" rewarded 

Agenda:

   * Discuss warmup
   * Quick Dia Tutorial
   * Design CYOA 

[edit] Friday (11/7/08)

Warmup:

   * Play this example of a Harry Potter Choose Your Own Adventure Game 

Agenda:

   * Discuss Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA)
   * Discuss engineering design & implementation
         o Requirements, design, implementation, testing, evaluation 
   * Requirements Analysis
         o Each menu should have at least 3 options
         o Your CYOA should have at least 5 levels of depth
         o MUST be school appropriate 
   * Design
         o We will create a flow chart to design your CYOA game 
   * Implementation
         o We will create our game in Python using input and if-statements 
   * Testing
         o We will test each others' games as a class 
   * Evaluation
         o You are going to grade each other 

[edit] Wednesday (11/5/08)

Warmup:

   * Take out a sheet of scratch paper and trace the code below. You should be writing down the values of different variables as they change
   * What are the final values of a, b, and c? 

a = 1 b = 5 c = 10

if a == b or b < c:

   temp = c - b
   if temp >= b:
       a = 3
   else:
       a = 2

else:

   b = 10 - a
   a = 2*a

Agenda:

   * Return assignments and 1st Quarter Exam
   * Review 1st Quarter Exam
   * Geek Flow Chart Assignment
   * Read through HTTLACS: Ch 5 and complete the exercises