Thursday, February 21, 2013

We're going to build this one from the ground up...

* Basic Skeleton

* Parameters (for creating variables in one function and trying to use them in another)

* Strings (analysis of input)

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Interested in learning more?  Professor Wills will be teaching a course on App Inventor this summer!

Don't forget: Fix up your problems on past projects by renaming the project file with "Redo" at the end (i.e.  gameRoom.html becomes gameRoomRedo.html).  I will tell you why very soon.

Now, let's get some practical practice with the skills we've been learning.  Can we have a little Old MacDonald??

Thursday, February 14, 2013

For those of you who are not happy with your project scores, I suggest you take the next week or so to look over the items that caused issues.  You may have a chance for retribution

We are in the middle of an off-centered cycle of midterms.  In order to not give anyone an unfair advantage, we'll be discussing something that won't be tested this week.

A little bit of Zen.

Style sheets can affect the entire look of your page. Don't neglect the style!

Now, for our in-class project.

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

Counters and For

We learned how to find out whether doubles are rolled, and even learned how to keep track of a slot machine coming up cherries.  Now, let's try keeping track of some other things with counters.

Let's practice here.

Now, what if we wanted to use that counter for something else?  Say we wanted to roll the dice five times to see how many times we came up doubles or sevens?  We would need a loop...

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

This Isn't Working

It isn't you...I hope.  So let's try something new.

We're going to try to work it out, but expectations need to change.  We're going to reverse the standard educational flow.  From now on, you will be expected to become familiar with the material on your own time (read the specified chapters of the book by the dates listed on the syllabus.)  Then, we'll do hands on learning in class.

We'll now have assignments to work on in class each day.  The assignments are expected to be done before you leave, no one should have to spend their own time on them.  For that reason, nothing about them will be posted online.

You will turn these assignments in with your projects.  They will count toward your final dollar amount.

Now, let's group up and get to work on this file.