Posts Tagged ‘Academia’

GAD235: Sample Files Posted

Monday, January 19th, 2009

If you click over on the GAD235 page, I've uploaded the sample files we discussed in class this past week, as well as the Critter base stuff. I've deliberately left comments out of the critter files, as I think it would be a good exercise for you to go through the files and comment them yourself to figure out how it's working, either as a refresher from last quarter, or to bring you up to speed.

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GAD225 HW5: Word Games

Monday, December 1st, 2008

For this project, present the user with the option to play any of the following three games:

1. Hangman, pick a word from your wordlist. Display it with dashes in place of the letters. Allow the user to guess letters (or the complete word as a separate option). Give them a finite amount of guesses. After it's over, allow them to play again with a new word, or go back to main menu.

2. Scramble, pick a word from your wordlist. Display it scrambled. Allow the user to guess the word. After it's over, allow them to play again with a new word, or go back to the main menu.

3. Mastermind. Generate a four digit number using only 1-6 for each digit. Allow the user to guess. Indicate how many numbers are correct, and how many are both correct AND in the right spot.

You can make additional combo options of the above for extra credit.

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IM211: Files Uploaded

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

The files I mentioned in class have been uploaded to the new downloads page for the course. Head on over there and grab them as they will be very helpful.

Don't forget, you should read the "Writing Process" chapter of Capture Deliver Excel, found on that page.

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World Creation: Links to Orbit Simulations

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Here are links to the orbital simulations that we looked at in class, in case you want to mess around with them some more:

  • Two Stars
  • Two Stars + some Planets
  • Two Stars + a Planet (animated)
  • Two Stars + a Planet (animated, "ice cream scoop" orbit)
  • Three Stars, Figure 8 Orbit (animated)
  • Also: We didn't get around to chatting about it in class, because I wanted you to have some time to get together with your groups, but don't forget to consider the implications of non standard orbits, axises, and rotations. Consider Uranus, so tilted as to be pretty much perpendicular to it's revolutionary orbit. Consider the distance of your world from it's star, and how long it takes to orbit said star. What implications do the orbital lengths/axis tilts have on seasons, and what implications do those, in turn, have to life on your world? Life would be quite different on a planet that went through a winter period that lasted an entire generation's life span!

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DC251: Getting Keyboard Input

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I've had a couple of students ask me what the easiest way to figure out which key the user pressed is. So I wrote a quick and simple sample program that does that very thing.

I've added it to the sample code page.

Hopefully it explains everything thoroughly, but if any questions remain, please let me know!

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