Computer Science

Wednesday (12/12/12)

Agenda:

• If you have not already done so, complete the Portfolio Evaluations for 5 other students
• For the rest of the quarter:
  • Game Design
  • Teams of 3-4
  • STEM Challenge
• Game Design Ideas
  1. Bring up your "Favorite Games and Ideas" Google Doc
  2. Review it
  3. Create a new Google Doc named "Game Design Ideas"
  4. Using a bulleted list, begin writing the descriptions of what you would envision in your future game
  5. You may also include descriptions of characters or drawings

Monday - Wednesday (12/10/12)

Warmup:

• Digital Portfolio Progress Check

Agenda:

• Complete the Digital Portfolio Website
• Complete the Portfolio Evaluations for 5 other students

Tuesday - Thursday (12/4/12 - 12/6/12)

• Demonstrate that you have added at least 2 additional advanced features to your Dodge game
• Screencasting with Jing
• Embedding in Google Sites
• Digital Portfolio Website

Friday (11/30/12)

Agenda:

• Demonstrate that you have added at least 2 additional advanced features to your Dodge game

Monday - Wednesday (11/26/12 - 11/28/12)

Warmup:

• In a video game, when a player sprite fires a weapon or projectile, what exactly happens? List the specific steps of what you see.

Agenda:

• Complete Dodge game
• If you are done, add the advanced features:
  • Power-ups
    • extra life or health
    • clear screen (item drops and if picked up, gives player a clear screen option)
    • invincibility
    • speed increase
  • Weapon/projectiles
    • single small
    • weapon upgrades to bigger projectile
    • multiple shots

Thursday - Monday (11/15/12 - 11/19/12)

Agenda:

• CS Student Pages
  • Check if your website is properly linked
  • Check if you have links to pages for each of your games
    1. Frogger
    2. Item Collection
    3. Pong
    4. Whack-a-mole
    5. Dodge
• Wait until block
• Work on Dodge game
• Hint: Detection of collisions should be done in the falling enemy (easier to duplicate across all enemies)

Tuesday (11/13/12)

Agenda:

• Make sure you've shared the following projects on-line
  1. Frogger
  2. Item Collection
  3. Pong
  4. Whack-a-mole
• Complete Scratch - Research Assignment
• Work on the Dodge game

Thursday (11/8/12)

Warmup:

• Create an account at http://www.scratch.mit.edu/

Agenda:

• Scratch Project Sharing Instructions
  1. Open Scratch
  2. Open one of projects
  3. Share->Share this project on-line
  4. Upload!
• Share the following projects on-line
  1. Frogger
  2. Item Collection
  3. Pong
  4. Whack-a-mole
• Complete the Scratch - Research Assignment

Monday (11/5/12)

• Makeup exams
• Missing work and demos
• Download: The True Story of the Internet: Part 1

Thursday (11/1/12)

• 1st Quarter Exam

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