Planning Your Program
⬜ Review Project Requirements & Responses and Collaborative Project Rubric.
⬜ Brainstorm ideas for your project. Ask yourselves the following questions:
- What do we want to create?
- Is there a project we've created this Unit that we want to develop further, or do we want to create something new?
- What will be the goal of our game/program?
- Do we want to create a game? tell a story? help someone? solve a problem?
- What programming language will we use? Blocks? JavaScript? Python?
- What part of our program will meet the requirements for:
- Functions with parameters and return values
- Conditional Statements and Boolean Operators
- While Loops
- Extension
- How might you also incorporate sprites/projectiles?
- Look around for idea inspiration:
- MakeCode Arcade Home Page
- MakeCode Arcade Forum
⬜ Make a plan for your program.
⬜ Draw a flowchart and write pseudocode of what the program will do; make sure the program has:
- Functions with parameters
- Functions with return values
- Conditional Statements
- Boolean Operators
- Logic in Loops (While)
- Extension