IS660Z

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IS660Z Programming Games Using Visual Basic

• Required Session 2
• June 9, 2003

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Agenda

• Load and start up projects
• Student project presentations
• Discussion of topics raised in online forums
• Online Quiz Friday - Saturday
• Overview of Cannonball
• VB exercise for animation
• (If time) practice posting with html link

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Get ready to present

• Load your project onto your computer and test to
  see if it is working
• Upload your project (zipped) to digital dropbox
• Student presentations will begin soon ...

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Discussion Topics

• Prototyping in VB
• Does building the form first make it easier to
  understand to read the text and understand what
  to do?
• Small spelling mistakes cause big problems
• Windows API

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Reminder

• Students need to sign on the Blackboard Friday 6
  am - Saturday 1159 pm for online quiz
• Quiz will be timed (60 minutes)
• Must take it all in one sitting
• Simple questions related to material we have
  covered
• Name a control object from a game, how was it used

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Quiz Grading Rubric

• Excellent (10 points) concise and accurate
  answer, with specific details from game
• Good (6-9 points) accurate answer, but details
  from game is missing
• Poor (0-5 points)
• Wrong answer
• Copied from text
• Copied from another student

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Functions and procedures

• As programs get large, are easier to manage if
  you break them up into sections
• Can also reuse functions, rather than
  re-inventing the wheel
• (functions and procedures pres)

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Overview of Cannonball

• Run the game
• Not a full game
• Animation using a timer
• Drag and drop of target and cannon

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VB Exercise

• Practice using a timer and moving shapes
• Debugging options
• Break button
• Immediate window
• Setting a breakpoint and adding a watch

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Links in postings

• Adding a link to a message
• Use html
• lta hrefweb site addressgtlink textlt/agt
• Can use other html tags, bold ltbgtlt/bgt, italic
  ltigtlt/igt

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Next week

• Continue postings to discussion forums
• Cannonball is due Wednesday at class (No
  Cannonball presentations)
• Start thinking about final project
• Enhanced cannonball
• Tic Tac Toe
• Minesweeper
• Your own game?