Unit 3 - Interactive Animations and Games ('22-'23)
In this unit, you’ll build on your coding experience as you program animations, interactive art, and games in Game Lab. The unit starts off with simple shapes and builds up to more sophisticated sprite-based games, using the same programming concepts and the design process computer scientists use daily. In the final project, you’ll develop a personalized, interactive program.
Description
Students build up toward programming interactive animations in the Game Lab environment. They begin with simple shapes and sprite objects, then use loops to create flipbook style animations. Next, they learn to use booleans and conditionals to respond to user input. At the end of the chapter, students design and create an interactive animation that they can share with the world.
Big questions
- What is a computer program?
- What are the core features of most programming languages?
- How does programming enable creativity and individual expression?
- What practices and strategies will help me as I write programs?
Description
In this chapter students combine the constructs that they learned in the first chapter to program more complex movement and collisions in their sprites. As they create more complex programs, they begin to use functions to organize their code. In the end, students use a design process to create an original game.
Big questions
- How do software developers manage complexity and scale?
- How can programs be organized so that common problems only need to be solved once?
- How can I build on previous solutions to create even more complex behavior?
| Level Type | Level Status | |||||
| Not started | In progress | Keep working | Needs review | Completed | Assessments / Surveys | |
| Concept | Concept: Not started | Concept: In progress | N/A | N/A | Concept: Completed (perfect) | N/A |
| Activity | Activity: Not started | Activity: In progress | Activity: Keep working | Activity: Needs review | Activity: Completed (perfect) | Activity: Submitted |
| Level Type | Level Details | ||
| Concept | Text | Video | Map |
| Activity | Unplugged Lesson Extras | Online Assessment | Question Choice level |
