CS1 - 1011 - December

Thursday - Friday (12/23/10 - 12/31/10)

• Non-denominational Winter Break

Tuesday - Wednesday (12/21/10 - 12/22/10)

Agenda:

• Make sure you have a completed "following game," where the mitt responds to the keyboard and can follow around a bouncing ball. If the mitt catches the ball then the game ends. If you do not have this game, then you must do the following:
  1. Go to section 8.8 in Case Study: Catch
  2. Copy & paste the code
  3. Make the following changes/additions to the code
     1. The ball should not go beyond the right side of the screen
     2. The ball should bounce off the right and left sides of the screen
     3. The mitt should be able to also move right and left
• EVERYBODY must then go through their "following game" code and comment all the lines before break

Monday (12/20/10)

Agenda:

• Pong

Friday (12/17/10)

Agenda:

• Read and walk through Case Study: Catch
• Begin working on Pong

Tuesday - Thursday (12/14/10 - 12/16/10)

Agenda:

• Demo Looping with GASP Exercises
• Read and walk through Case Study: Catch
  • Basic ball motion
  • Ball bouncing
  • Keyboard control
  • Combining the above--follow the ball around!
• Pong

Friday - Monday (12/10/10 - 12/13/10)

Warmup:

• Copy and paste the following code

from gasp import *          # import everything from the gasp library

begin_graphics()            # open the graphics canvas

Box((20, 20), 100, 100)     # the house
Box((55, 20), 30, 50)       # the door
Box((40, 80), 20, 20)       # the left window
Box((80, 80), 20, 20)       # the right window
Line((20, 120), (70, 160))  # the left roof
Line((70, 160), (120, 120)) # the right roof

update_when('key_pressed')  # keep the canvas open until a key is pressed
end_graphics()              # close the canvas (which would happen
                            # anyway, since the script ends here, but it
                            # is better to be explicit).

• Try changing some of the numbers in the above Box() and Line() functions...what happens? What do you think each of those numbers/arguments corresponds to?

Agenda:

• Looping with GASP Exercises

Thursday (12/9/10)

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Wednesday (12/8/10/)

Warmup:

• Prompt the user for a number N
• Print out the first N terms of the following sequence:
  • 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, ...

Agenda:

• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Tuesday (12/7/10)

Warmup:

1. Write a loop that runs 30 times (using x as a counter variable)
   1. Inside the loop, print x*" ","*"
   2. Don't forget to increment your counter variable
2. Write another loop that runs from 30 down to 0
   1. Inside the loop, print x*" ","*"
   2. Don't forget to decrement your counter variable

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Monday (12/6/10)

Warmup:

1. Initialize a counter variable i to 1
2. Create another variable old_i that starts at 1 also
3. Create a loop that runs up to 1000
   1. print out i and old_i on the same line (use a comma)
   2. save i into old_i
   3. increment i

• What happens when you execute the above code?

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Friday (12/3/10)

Warmup:

1. Initialize a counter variable i to 1
2. Create another variable old_i that starts at 1 also
3. Create a loop that runs up to 1000
   1. print out i and old_i
   2. save i into old_i
   3. increment i

• What happens when you execute the above code?

Agenda:

• ASCII Star Wars
• Print Shapes Exercises
• Looping Exercises

Thursday (12/2/10)

Warmup:

1. Prompt the user for a number N
2. Initialize a counter variable named i to 0
3. Using a loop, print out all the numbers up to N

Agenda:

• Early release today
• Demo missing Print Shapes Exercises
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Wednesday (12/1/10)

Warmup:

• Create a loop counter variable i that starts at 0
• Write a loop that counts down from 0 through -10 (What would the condition be?)
  • Print i inside the loop
  • Don't forget to decrement i!

Agenda:

• Demo missing Chapter 5 Exercises
• Guessing Game Assignment
• Print Shapes Exercises