VB - 0809 - October
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Contents
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