Day 3 (April 8, 2015)

Whoo! We have made to Day 3! Today is an action packed day - we are going to do two CS First activities in one day!

Game Design Concept: If-Then Statements

Read the statement below:
Think of game or video game that uses boundaries or walls to control where a player can go. [for example football, Pac-man, the Legend of Zelda, etc.] In today's games, and in most video games, If-Then statements are used to create these boundaries. These if-then statements are programmed to read: "If a player is touching the boundary, do something, like deduct a point, or stop them. Think of If-Then statements as cause and effect statements (or like a hypothesis in science class!):

• If I fall down, then I will hurt myself.
• If I give a plant more water, then it will increase in height.

Answer the question below in your VGD Notebook.

1. Explain If-Then statements in your own words.

Activity 1  

We will be learning to make to make two types of games this week: a maze style game and a platform game.

Activity 2 

Play a game on Scratch and complete the Game Design worksheet in your VGD Notebook.