Course: Games Programming & Robotics

Daily Resources and Learning Intentions

These learning intentions help students in Computer Science stay focused and involved.
It is important for all students in Computer Science classes to open the learning intentions and the resources that are published and posted at the start of each class and then determine the success criteria to assess understanding.
When absent or away from school, all students are expected to self-help and complete the activities to help learn and keep ahead.


DATE	TOPIC	LEARNING INTENTIONS	POWERSCHOOL UPDATE
Wed 19 April	Rover Build - Toward Race Day	Click Here
Mon 17 Apr	Rover Build - Toward Race Day	Click Here
Fri 31 Mar	Rover Build - Toward Race Day	Click Here
Wed 29 Mar	Rover Build	Click Here
Mon 27 Mar	Maze Rover - Ultansonic Range Finder	Click Here
Fri 24 Mar	Competition Day 2 - Finales and Playoffs	Click Here
Wed 22 Mar	Competition Day 1 - Start	Click Here
Mon 20 Mar	Arduino - Team Challenge - Simon Said Game	Click Here
Fri 17 Mar	Arduino - Team Challenge - Simon Said Game	Click Here
Wed 8 Mar	Arduino - Team Challenge - Simon Said Game	Click Here
Mon 6 Mar	Arduino - Team Challenge - Simon Said Game	Click Here
Mon 27 Feb	Arduino - Team Challenge & Gearbox Contsructions	Click Here
Fri 24 Feb	Arduino - Team Challenge & Gearbox Contsructions	Click Here
Fri 10 Feb	Arduino - Team Challenge	Click Here
Mon 6 Feb	Arduino - Team Challenge	Click Here
Fri 3 Feb	Arduino - First Dev Team Challenge	Click Here
Wed 1 Feb	Arduino - First Dev Team Challenge	Click Here
Mon 30 Jan	Arduino - Extensions with LED Flow - Circ01, Circ02	Click Here
Fri 27 Jan	Arduino - Circ02	Click Here
Wed 25 Jan	Arduino - Circ01	Click Here
Mon 23 Jan	Arduino - First Circuits	Click Here
Fri 20 Jan	Arduino - First Circuits	Click Here
Wed 18 Jan	Arduino - Getting Started	Click Here
Mon 16 Jan	AI and ChatGPT - Engineering Responses, Engineering Responses, Class Debate	Click Here
Fri 13 Jan	AI and ChatGPT - The future of AI	Click Here
Wed 11 Jan	AI and ChatGPT OR Arduino	Click Here
Wed 7 Dec	Extensions and Exploring Further Techniques - FOR Loops	Click Here
Mon 5 Dec	Showcase of Team Challenge	Click Here
Fri 2 Dec	Final Prep Day - Games Design 2	Click Here
Wed 30th Nov	Dev Groups - Games Design 2 -Course Reflection	Click Here
Mon 28 Nov	Dev Groups - Games Design 2 -Self Reflection	Click Here
Fri 25 Nov	Dev Groups and Scores - Applying Functions	Click Here
Mon 21 Nov	Dev Groups and Scores - Applying Functions	Click Here
Wed 16 Nov	Dev Groups and Scores - Functions	Click Here
Mon 14 Nov	Dev Groups and Scores - Challenges	Click Here
Mon 7 nov	p5.js - Images, Audio, KeyPressed()	Click Here
Wed 19 Oct	More Games Programming - p5.js. - Iterative Patterns	Click Here
Mon 17 Oct	Games Programming - p5.js. - Iterative Patterns	Click Here
Fri 14th Oct	Iterative Patterns using RGB and Shapes	Click Here
Click Here	Games Programming - Functions - Geometry - Boolean Flags - Conditionals	Click Here
Mon 4 Oct	Games Programming	Click Here
Fri 23 Sep	Branching & Decision Making	Click Here
Wed 21 Sep	Truth Table, Boolean Expressions. Branching & Decision Making	Click Here
Tue 20 Sep	Boolean, Logic & Truth Tables	Click Here
Fri 16 Sep	Artificial Intelligence Discussion	Click Here
Wed 14 Sep	Artificial Intelligence Investigation & Discussion	Click Here
Mon 12 Sep	Problem Solving	Click Here
Fri 9 Sep	Summative Assignment - Solving Problems II	Click here
Wed 7 Sep	User Prompts with Scanner()	Click here
Mon 6 Sep	Using & Applying Data Types	Click here
Fri 2 Sep	Intro to Data Types	Click here
Tue 31 Aug	Input & Output IO, Publishing Assessments, First Data Types	Click here
Wed 24 Aug	Computational Thinking	Click here

Course Overview & Assessment

Course Description
Students learn to be responsible users of digital technology, capable of developing coded solutions for specific needs. Students use ICT to develop design ideas, solve problems, develop arcade games, build robots and collaborate online. In this 1 year course, students learn general-purpose programming languages and use those skills to solve information problems and automate repetitive tasks. Our students explore a variety of coding approaches through a combination of coding interfaces with Java and BlueJ, games design with graphics and sound using Processing.org libraries, and robotic systems and control using extensive Arduino development kits and 3D printers in our HS Innovation Hub.
Unit Plan 2022-2023
Learning Enrichment and Challenge
Using and Applying Technology
Thinking Effectively and Knowing How to Learn
Knowledge, Understanding and Techniques
Work Expectations in Computer Science
Sample - Work Submission Format
ACS computing - Knowing How to Learn

Unit 1 - Algorithms and Programming - Getting Started

For any aspiring programmer, the benefits of learning Java are foundational to learning subsequent coding languages such as C, C#, C++, Python and others. This is because Java teaches new coders how to think like a programmer, working through processes with logic and testing out ideas.
Objectives
Students learn to:
begin mastering concepts and issues to solve problems and create solutions through coding in Java; use good programming style, best practice techniques and in-code documentation; understand language syntax, to compile programs using command line interfaces and the BlueJ IDE; understand data types and their limitations; understand different types of computer error: logic, runtime, syntax; design and create algorithms using a range of primitive data types, variables, math library functions and custom formulas; investigate alternative approaches to solving problems;
Assessment:
Coding Challenges: A range of tasks where students demonstrate their understanding of solving problems through coded exercises in Java. Students present solutions in logbooks showing appropriate testing.
Variables and Formulas
Exploring Java
Comments in Java Code
Summative Assignment - Using Formulas in Java
5 Basic Principles Of Graphic Design You Take For Granted Everyday
Examples of Using Scanner()
Solution - Using Scanner.nextLine() after Scanner.nextInt()
Summative Assignment - Solving Problems II
Types of Program Error

Unit 1 - Further Programming

Design, develop and document software solutions; test and evaluate software solutions.

Assessment Notification:

Unit 1.1

Formative (10%): A range of coding exercises and logbooks
Summative (90%):  A range of coding challenges

Students learn to...
Design, develop and document software solutions; master branching and decision making; master a range of techniques to iterate in Java using while, for and repeat loops; testing and evaluating software solutions.
Video Tutorial -
Video Tutorial -
Google Worksheet - Binary to Decimal Conversions
Practice - Cisco Binary Numbers Game
Revision - Video Tutorial -
Online Converter - All Bases - Check your Answers - Extension -> Create it in Java
Extension Students: Create your own version of the base convertor. You may also extend with SWING or JavaScript.
Practice - Flippy Bit Game
Video Tutorial - RGB Colours Explained
Summative Assignment - Binary, Hex Conversion Worksheet
Quick reference - The ASCII conversion table
Branching and Decision Making

GAMES PROGRAMMING

KEY RESOURCE: Tutorials for the p5.js language

http://learningprocessing.com/examples/chp01/example-01-01-stroke-fill

REFERENCE AND COMMANDS HELP: Full syntax help and examples for p5.js

https://processing.org/reference

INSTRUCTIONS

In preparation for our Games Programming Unit, we offer the following tutorials for your ongoing and independent study. Over the next three weeks, you will complete each of the five tutorial chapters at your own pace.

All students should have made good progress through each of these assessments and tutorials by the 10th of October. Mr MJ will review your progress upon his return, so plan your time wisely. Do not procrastinate and experiment with each tutorial. Have fun, extend, and enjoy. We don't expect to complete them all in one week, so they will be uploaded over the course of the next three weeks.

Extension: You can download the full app from here http://processing.org/download and complete the tutorials there. Have fun creating your own simulations or mini-games if you complete all tutorials.

ASSESSMENTS (upload to the course grade book, slots now posted)

NAME	DESCRIPTION
Formative 1 - Ch2 - P5.JS - Geometry - Zoog	Draw your own Zoog. Be creative using the examples in Chap 1-2 as a guide.
Formative 2 - Ch3 - p5.js Event Handling - Translated Zoog	Translate your Zoog from Formative 1 using the mouse and Chap 3 as a guide.
Formative 3 - Ch4 - p5.js Variables - The Rise of the Zoog	Create a rising Zoog using 4-08 Zoog Variables as a guide.
Formative 4 - Ch5 - p5.js Conditionals - Bouncing Zoog	Extend your Zoog and bounce it across the screen using 5-10 as a guide.

Upload your completed assessments to JupiterED. Read the instructions and assessment rubric which are posted for each.

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Screenshot from our online course grade book showing upload slots and dates

TUTORIALS

Work through each of the examples in Chapter 1 to Chapter 5 as listed below in the table.

Experiment with each tutorial. Have fun, extend, and enjoy.

You shouldn't avoid or neglect the full online p5.js syntax reference guide since it contains examples and additional help.

CHAPTER 1	CHAPTER 2	CHAPTER 3
CHAP 1: PIXELS 1-1 Stroke Fill 1-2 No Fill 1-3 Rgb Color 1-4 Alpha 1-5 Zoog	CHAP 2: PROCESSING 2-1 Zoog	CHAP 3: INTERACTION 3-1 Setup And Draw 3-2 MouseX MouseY 3-3 Zoog Mouse 3-4 Continuous Line 3-5 Mouse Key Events 3-6 Interactive Zoog 3-7 Translated Zoog
CHAPTER 4	CHAPTER 5
CHAP 4: VARIABLES 4-1 Declaring Variables 4-2 Using Variables 4-3 Incrementingvar 4-4 Many Variables 4-5 System Variables 4-6 More Variables 4-7 Random Painting 4-8 Zoog Variables	CHAP 5: CONDITIONALS 5-1 Conditionals Fading Colors 5-2 Conditionals Quadrants 5-3 Rollovers 5-4 Hold Button 5-5 Switch Button 5-6 Bouncing Ball 5-7 Bouncing Color 5-8 Path Along Edges 5-9 Gravity 5-10 Bouncing Zoog

Iterations

Unit 2 - Games Programming & Computer Graphics

Design, develop and document software solutions; test and evaluate software solutions.

Assessment Notification:

Unit 2

Formative (10%): A range of coding exercises and logbooks
Summative (90%):  A range of coding challenges to code and create with graphics

Web Link

Installing Processing, Arduino and BlueJ

Web Link

Processing Keywords to Get to Know

Web Link

Red House - Samples

Web Link

Task 1 - Scaffold for Task - Coding with Graphics

Web Link

Activity - Games Programming

Unit 3 - Robotics & Control Systems

Create Arduino circuits and building a Rover to program and escape a maze.

Assessment Notification:

Unit 3

Formative (10%): A range of robotics challenges with logbooks
Summative (90%):  A range of rover challenges to escape a maze.

Arduino - Posters - Raceday, Pathday, Independence Day

Maze Rover Competition

Getting Started with Arduino
Instructions and Tasks	Getting Started
Competition Task Sheet	“Simon Said” Development Teams Challenge
Assessment Scores	Teams Result and Scoreboard
The Maze Challenges
Posters	Race Day, Rover Day & Independence Day
Task Sheet	Slides: ACS Rover Guide
Rover Assembly Guides
	Video - Robot Assembly - Rover V2
	Video - Robot Assembly - Gearbox and Chassis
	Rover Tank - Main Website - Documentation
	Difference between Analog and Digital Signals
Arduino Lessons
	Arduino Lessons 1-33
	Code for Lessons 1-33
	Code.zip Archive