Friday, February 11, 2011

2-11-11

Meeting with Ryan, the artist.
Gave ideas for sprites.. green alien, multi-cultural/gender companion
Plan to have portals, space ship parts, asteroids.
Plan to have all the images cohesive as well as the text.
Gave first day's game to be artfully modified.
Discussed the other four games as well.

2-8-11 Meeting Minutes


· Overview of Lecture
· Review of Previous Day (optional)
· Introduction of topic
o Real world example (situation)
o Relate to concept (Maybe switch with above)
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· Define and explain one concept
· Give different real world example
o Discussion: Have students relate to concept
· (Every couple of concepts) Hands on exercise implementing a stage of the game
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· Review of Lecture (could be used for Previous Day)


Notes:
For loop might be hard to implement in game because of act() method – might use for loop as an initial implementation of an idea, then show a ‘better’ way to implement idea

In files, have constructors then act() method first, then put methods you will be using in examples

Each day talk objects, or begin with objects as the first lesson.


Next week: code review – report (day and list faults and questions) Goal: give hard copy of code and do demo

Day 1 – Introduce Greenfoot, use graphical interface, talk about object/class and inheritance and API
Day 2 – Arithmetic
Day 3 – Control
Day 4 – Data Structures
Day 5 – Creative

Meeting Minutes 2/1/2011

Meeting time will be moved to Tuesday at 12:00 noon (check with Dr. Doerschuk)

Code Review

General Lecture presentations

End Report

  • Results of academy
  • Teaching materials

Show JavaGoneGreen materials at summer teachers’ workshop

Conferences

  • Grace Hopper (check deadline, write paper instead of poster)(Portland, Oregon)
March 15, 2011, Poster only
  • FIE (October)(Rapids City, South Dakota)
  • Tapia(April 3-5)(San Francisco, CA)