Lesson plan week 2

• Demo student's games
• Get game ideas
  • Can also work on these instead of doing my examples
  • Copy and paste
• The battle with bugs
  • indentation
• Check everyone understood keyboard_input.py
• Show joystick_tester.py
  • no need for you to type this program, it's just there to test controllers!
  • explain axes
• Boolean logic: and, or, <, >
• joystick_input.py uses boolean logic
• Sprite editing with Piskel
• Show collisions.py and collisions2.py - students type collisions2.py

Future stuff: newtonion physics - platform game? functions text in games

Lesson plan week 3

• Demo student's games (j&o) (and animations d)
• Ask what students are interested in:
  • Minecraft?
  • Visual novels?
• Show 0A_shortcuts.py
• Show 0B_for_loop.py
• Show 20_loops.py
• Show 25_colours.py
• Show 0C_arrays (if still interested)
• Show 21_arrays.py (if still interested)
• Show 0d_functions (if still interested)
• If doing sprites, try MS Paint. Students start by entering 20_loops.py.

Lesson plan week 4

• Show some broken code to debug

x = 10 y = 11 z = 12 print(x,y,z)