OPENING QUESTION: Please continue your work on Pong.
If you are done with pong, please start planning your final project.
To wit:
You have WIDE latitude on that project. I'd most prefer that you develop an html based web page that you will publish on your very own web server that I will set up for you on my presence on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
You'll have your own site that is completely your own.
I encourage you to follow your interests in using java scripts, css or other web tools.
If you are interested in using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface for creating a web page, consider using this tool. It takes some getting used to but there aren't really any development tools for free (if you can find one, plelase, by all means use it. Just know that you MUST publish on my AWS).
You are MOST welcome to try to find a development tool that works best for you, however please not most (if not ALL) html development tools are just souped-up versions of notepad.
Personally I prefer Dreamweaver, but that is an expensive beast.
| PONG Grading Rubric Version 2.1 Look & Feel/Game Play | Score | Check |
| Players can control left-side paddles with required left-side keys | 1 point | |
| Players can control right-side paddles with required right-side keys | 1 point | |
| Ball begins play at middle of field at start of game | 1 point | |
| Ball begins play at middle of field at after each point | 1 point | |
| Ball bounces correctly off ALL parts of the paddle | 4 points | |
| Ball increases in speed at a reasonable rate each time it bounces off a paddle | 3 points | |
| A point is scored for the opponent each time the ball touches the left or right edge | 3 points | |
| Game ends when one player reaches five points | 1 point | |
| Winning player is shown when game ends | 1 point | |
| Players can begin a new game AT ANY TIME | 1 point |
OBJECTIVES: I will work with my team to identify the CT (Create Task) required programming elements.
I will apply those programming elements to my PONG game.
CALENDAR: Let's have pong due on this Friday, May 23rd.
WORDS O' THE DAY:
None Today
WORK O' THE DAY:
PONG -- We have an extended day today so let's get it done.
This score for this project will be very skewed on presence/absence of items on the checklist!
You still need comments and the rest of what makes a well-crafted computer program, just that those items will be weighted much less than before.
In otherwords, the key here is FUNCTIONALITY