week4

STARS Exploring CS

Week 4

Prep Work

• Continue work on your Lego assignment

Learning Objectives

• Review and practice using methods and parameters
• Continue to practice using max and min
• Understand and be able to use the methods random, dist, mousePressed, and mouseReleased
• Continue to learn and practice with conditional statements
• Understand and be able to use logical operators (and, or)
• Understand and be able to use Processing built in variables: mouseX, mouseY, mousePressed

Warm up

• Add methods and parameters to a monster example

Lessons

• Events
• Conditional statement structure, logical operators
• Built in variables, mouseX, mouseY, mousePressed
• Methods: random, dist, mousePressed, mouseReleased

Exercises

• Dot Drawing
• Line Drawing
• Growing Ellipse
• Rect hover

Debrief

• What new things did you learn today?
• What topics are you still struggling with?
• What did you especially enjoy about today's class?
• What can be improved for future classes?

Resources)

• Code Examples

Homework

• Interactive Monster Due Friday, 04/28, 9pm