{"id":216,"date":"2019-06-07T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/?p=216"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:33:57","slug":"day-3-unit-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/class\/day-3-unit-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 Unit 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unit 1. Simple chase game &#8211; Loops and Variables<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dream Game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"color: initial;\">ask students to generate a list of games that they enjoy playing. <\/span><\/li><li>Give students a short time period (1-2 minutes) to write down as many games as they can. Then, have students narrow down their favorites from the list.<\/li><li>After a few minutes, ask about their list of games:<br>What do the games have in common?<br>What features of their design make them a game?<\/li><li>Facilitate a class discussion about what characteristics make up a game and generate a class list of common game mechanics. <\/li><li>Next, ask students to imagine their dream game and write a list of design elements for that game.<\/li><li>Invite students to share their dream game lists in their small groups to get feedback and suggestions.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make a list of your favorite games.<\/li><li>What do the games have in common?<\/li><li>What features of their design make them a game?<\/li><li>Create a list of design elements for your dream game.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simple chase game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, you will build a simple game,&nbsp;while you learn about&nbsp;two important computer science concepts, loops and variables<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will start by watching this video together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/249143200\/editor?tutorial=animate-an-adventure-game\">https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/249143200\/editor?tutorial=animate-an-adventure-game<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s continue with the project. Remember to Sign in on the top right to save your project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>choose a character<\/li><li>Make the character say something<\/li><li>Glide the character around<\/li><li>Choose an object to chase<\/li><li>Make the character move to touch the object<\/li><li>Track how many time the character collected the object with a score variable<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit 1. Simple chase game &#8211; Loops and Variables Dream Game ask students to generate a list of games that they enjoy playing. Give students a short time period (1-2 minutes) to write down as many games as they can. Then, have students narrow down their favorites from the list. After a few minutes, ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirahan.faculty.unlv.edu\/summercode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}