CS1 - 1112 - October

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.
  1. Write your name on the handout
  2. 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:

1. Google "logical and" and decipher what it means
2. 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:

1. Open TextEdit or MS Word
2. 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:
  1. Background music
  2. Sounds when you move the frog
  3. The enemy sprites constantly change costume back and forth (makes it look like they're moving)
  4. Health/Lives power-up (when picked up, you get a new life)
  5. Increasingly difficult levels