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Wednesday (11/6/08)

• Randomization review
• Collision detection review
• Item collection game
  • You will have a label that tracks the number of items (initialize it to 0)
  • You will have a single player that can move around the screen
  • You will have at least 10 "mines" on the screen
    • Randomly place them when the form is loaded
    • If a mine is hit, then tell the user "Game Over" and end the game
  • You will have at least 5 items on the screen
    • Randomly place them when the form is loaded
    • If an item is collected (collision with item), then make the item disappear and increase your item count by 1

Thursday (10/30/08)

• Catch up day. Turn in any missing work
• You should have keyboard input with a moving object
• Try adding collisions using the distance formula between two objects

Tuesday (10/28/08)

• 1st Quarter Exam
• When you are done, you should work on your game

Friday (10/24/08)

• Simple Sprite Motion Assignment
• Keyboard sprite movement
  • Search online for video game sprite images (e.g. google "mario sprites")
  • Download Media:Keyboard.frm
  • Create a new program for your keyboard-movable sprite (we're going to get rid of buttons)
  • Go over the keyboard code and grab the necessary pieces of source code to add to your new program
  • Add the necessary if statements to move your video game sprite around using the keyboard
  • Demo your program to Mr. Bui
  • CHALLENGE:
    • Add a second movable picture for another player
    • Add screenwrapping
    • Add collisions with the walls

Monday - Wednesday (10/20/08 - 10/22/08)

• Demo the Cell Phone Bill calculator
• Demo the Shipping calculator
• Simple Sprite Motion Assignment
• Media:Keyboard.frm

Tuesday - Thursday (10/14/08 - 10/16/08)

• Review VB pp. 314 - 327
• College Admissions calculator
  • Research a college of your choice and find the average GPA and SAT scores of admitted students
  • Create a program that accepts two inputs: GPA and SAT score
  • When you press the calculate button, you should evaluate whether or not the person's GPA is high enough to get in
  • If the GPA is high enough, then check if the SAT score is high enough
  • You should display messages to the user if they could be admitted, whether or not they need to increase their GPA, or retake the SATs

• Complete the Cell Phone Bill calculator (p. 372)
  • You are encouraged to use your own cell phone plan's charges!
• Complete the Shipping calculator (p. 377)
• If you have completed everything, then you may spend some time researching colleges

Wednesday - Friday (10/8/08 - 10/10/08)

Agenda:

• Media: IfDemo.frm
• Media: RandomDemo.frm
• Media: GuessingGame.frm
• Complete and demo your guessing game
• Add other cool features!
  • Limit # of guesses
  • Display # of wins/losses
  • Last inputted guess
  • Colors, graphics, and funny sayings
  • Anything else you can think of that will make your game awesome!

Monday (10/6/08)

• Update grades
• Demo Weekly Pay Calculator (p. 283)
• Demo Cash Register (p. 285)
• Grade Calculator (p. 286)

Thursday (10/1/08)

• Interim grades
• Catch-up and turn in any missing

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