Demonstrate Python coding skills using online resource
Log on and head to www.codecombat.com using Google Chrome
Work through the game considering the following points:
- Formal notation
- builds an understanding of the importance of syntax in programming.
- Calling methods
- familiarises students with the syntax of object-oriented method calls.
- Parameters
- trains how to pass parameters to functions.
- Strings
- teaches students about string notation and passing strings as parameters.
- Loops
- develops the abstraction of designing short programs with loops.
Year 11
Please continue with the work you were completing with Mr Dunn which was to play and review existing games and extracting details that you would like to include and would definitely not include!
Next lesson you will begin using GameMaker for the first time to begin developing your skills.
For the rest of this lesson, you should have completed the following:
- Complete a game overview
- Annotated photos of your moodboard with feedback comments
- Annotated storyboards for all screens and levels in your game
- Complete a rules log
