IBCS1 - 1617 - October

Monday (10/31/16)

Agenda:

• Quarter Exam - Wednesday, Thursday (11/2/16, 11/3/16) - comprised of 2 major components:
  1. Completion and demo of Ping with sounds and images by the end of the week (individually!)
     • Add a background image
     • Change the ball and paddle to images
     • Add sounds to the ball bouncing off the walls and paddle
     • Add background music
     • Add a game over sound (use noLoop() to stop the draw() function from looping)
  2. Closed-book, closed-note component:
     • You could be given various snippets of Processing code, and you will be asked to draw the resulting image
     • You could be given incomplete Processing code, and you will be asked to complete the code

Wednesday - Friday (10/26/16 - 10/28/16)

Agenda:

• After completing the images and sound labs, integrate them into your Ping game (create a new project so you do not lose your working Ping code)
  • Add a background image
  • Change the ball and paddle to images
  • Add sounds to the ball bouncing off the walls and paddle
  • Add background music
  • Add a game over sound (use noLoop() to stop the draw() function from looping)

Monday - Tuesday (10/24/16 - 10/25/16)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo Project: Ping (1-player Pong)
• Complete and submit Media: Loading & Displaying Images to Google Classroom
• Complete and demo Media: Loading & Playing Sounds
  • Please remember to use your headphones!

Thursday - Friday (10/20/16 - 10/21/16)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo Project: Ping (1-player Pong)
• Complete and submit Media: Loading & Displaying Images to Google Classroom
• More Processing Labs
  • New labs added for images and sounds
• Thinkabit Lab Visit - Thursday (10/20/16) after school
  • Let Mr. Brodowski know if you are planning on going (bring ~$6 for metro fare)

Wednesday (10/19/16)

• PSATs

Monday - Tuesday (10/17/16 - 10/18/16)

Agenda:

• Mr. Bui has jury duty
• Make sure that you have completed Animation: Bouncing Ball
• Work on Project: Ping (1-player Pong)
• More Processing Labs
• Thinkabit Lab Visit - Thursday (10/20/16) after school
  • Let Mr. Brodowski know if you are planning on going (bring ~$6 for metro fare)

Friday (10/14/16)

Agenda:

• Female CS Students Scholarship Opportunity
  • NCWIT: Aspirations in Computing
• VA Summer Residential Governor's Schools (all students)
  • Information & Application
  • APS Timeline
• In-place Math Operators (shortcut)
  • +=, -=, *=, /=
  • a += b is equivalent to a = a + b (allows for changing the variable in place)
• Processing: Displaying Text
  • text(str, x, y)
  • textSize(int)
• Complete and demo Animation: Bouncing Ball
• Begin working on Project: Ping (1-player Pong)

Wednesday - Thursday (10/12/16 - 10/13/16)

Agenda:

• Female CS Students Scholarship Opportunity
  • NCWIT: Aspirations in Computing
• VA Summer Residential Governor's Schools (all students)
  • Information & Application
  • APS Timeline
• Complete and demo Project: Simple Paint
• local vs. global variables
• Complete and demo Animation: Bouncing Ball

Friday - Tuesday (10/7/16 - 10/11/16)

Agenda:

• Complete and submit Processing My First Animation
• Animation Practice
  1. Create a new Processing sketchbook (program) named MovingHouse
  2. Copy and paste your drawHouse() function
  3. Write the rest of the code to make the house follow the mouse
  4. Try creating other functions to draw other pictures (e.g. smiley) and make them follow the mouse
• Work on Processing Project: Simple Paint

Wednesday - Thursday (10/5/16 - 10/6/16)

Warmup:

1. Complete Warmup-1: monkey_trouble (try not to look at the solution)
2. Challenge: Complete the warmup in as few lines as possible (1 line of code is possible)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo Processing House Assignment
• Introduction to Processing Animations
  • setup()
  • draw()
• Complete and submit Processing My First Animation
• Animation Practice
  1. Create a new Processing sketchbook (program) named MovingHouse
  2. Copy and paste your drawHouse() function
  3. Write the rest of the code to make the house follow the mouse
  4. Try creating other functions to draw other pictures (e.g. smiley) and make them follow the mouse
• Work on Processing Project: Simple Paint

Monday - Tuesday (10/3/16 - 10/4/16)

Warmup:

1. Create an account on CodingBat
2. Complete Warmup-1: sleep_in (try not to look at the solution)
3. Challenge: Complete the warmup in as few lines as possible (1 line of code is possible)

Agenda:

• Media:PythonFunctions.pptx
• Complete and demo Python Functions Assignment
• Complete and demo Processing House Assignment
• More Processing Labs