Computer Science

Friday - Monday (12/9/11 - 12/12/11)

Agenda:

• Google Sites
  1. Login with your google account or create one if you do not already have one
  2. Create your first website
  3. Be sure to include the following information
     • Name (only first if you want to keep privacy)
     • School
     • Year in school
     • Special Interests
  4. We will be putting our digital portfolios on this website, so you can spend time now adding/removing widgets and playing with Google Sites
  5. Submit your website's address
• Complete and demo Tron Light Cycles game

Wednesday - Thursday (12/7/11 - 12/8/11)

• Complete and demo Tron Light Cycles game
• Screencasting with Jing
• Work on the STEM Challenge - Game Design Competition

Thursday - Tuesday (12/1/11 - 12/6/11)

• Complete and Demo your Tron Light Cycles game
• Work on the STEM Challenge - Game Design Competition. You can work on either of the following:
  • Creating a game design document
  • Creating the game in Scratch
• Games involving other subjects may be used for assignments in other classes as well
  • Animating science concepts
  • Animating math concepts
  • Animating a book that you are reading in English
  • Animating an event in history for social students
  • etc.

Monday - Wednesday (11/28/11 - 11/30/11)

• STEM Challenge - Game Design Competition
  • Sign up here!
• Missing Dodge demos
• Missing Tron requirements
• Complete and Demo your Tron Light Cycles game

Wednesday - Friday (11/23/11 - 11/25/11)

• Thanksgiving Break

Monday - Tuesday (11/21/11 - 11/22/11)

• Complete and Demo your Tron Light Cycles game

Monday - Friday (11/14/11 - 11/18/11)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo Dodge game
• Begin designing Tron Light Cycles Game
  • With a partner, describe all the rules and components of the game (just like Mr. Bui does it)
  • Be sure to completely describe everything:
    • Background
    • Sound
    • Players
    • What happens during game play (drawing/pen stuff)
    • How does somebody lose?
  • Print out and turn in your design (be sure to put both your names on it)
• From this list, begin making the game

Wednesday - Thursday (11/9/11 - 11/10/11)

Agenda:

• Return 1st Quarter Exams
• Dodge game

Monday (11/7/11)

Agenda:

• Finish Rise of the Video Game: Part 1
• Return 1st Quarter Exams
• Dodge game

Thursday - Friday (11/3/11 - 11/4/11)

Agenda:

• 1st Quarter Exams and makeups
• Demo Whac-A-Mole game (last grade of the quarter)
• Try naming as many video game systems and who made them chronologically
• Rise of the Video Game: Part 1

Tuesday - Thursday (11/1/11 - 11/3/11)

Agenda:

• 1st Quarter Exams and makeups
• Demo Whac-A-Mole game (last grade of the quarter)

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