Re: Raspberry PI running Apple // emulator...

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:07:40 PM UTC-5, Egan Ford wrote:
> On 8/11/12 9:01 PM, BLuRry wrote:
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> > 1) teaching a group of children how to program (2 weeks away from being done and then I get my weekends back!  YAY!)
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> What are you teaching them and what is the age range?
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> Thanks.

Younger group: Ages 9-11  "Video Game Design"
-Look at fundamental aspects of video game design and how video games work.  This covers basics like game testing, game reviews (using Atari 2600 games to compare ET to other popular 2600 games)  Then we move on to level design using first KGoldRunner (a faithful lode runner clone) and then Prince of Persia (using the Apoplexy editor and DosBox to play the VGA version of PoP).  The next parts we discuss winning vs. losing outcomes and then dive into Inform 7 to do some text adventure games.  Finally we go into Scratch to bring everything together to put together games that are actually fun to play and have all the elements of design we talked about.

Older group: Ages 12+  "Computer Programming"
This course covers object-oriented programming using Groovy.  After the first 4 classes we go into a Minecraft server outfitted with GroovyBukkit and start testing out object-oriented programming techniques against a live minecraft server.  Towards the end we explore stuff like converting images into minecraft blocks, in which I provide the image load and dithering logic but they write the output loops.  Still trying to figure out the last class exercise, probably some sort of event-based triggers.