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WEEK ONE: Getting Your Bearings

Monday: Introduction to Programming

• Introductions
• Review of rules, expectations, curriculum, evaluation methods, etc.
• Introduction to Eclipse, Projects in Eclipse
• Lab: Hello World
• Open Discussion: How computer work, demystifying programming, what are linux and java?
• Lab: Wackadot - but only through step 15!
• Intro to Java
• Webpages and the internet
• Day 1 Notes
• Chapter 1 Notes

Tuesday: Objects & Data Manipulation

• Objects, Classes, Methods, Data Types (Ch 4, 2)
• Data Types Examples
• Lab: Pong
• Chapter 4 Notes
• Chapter 2 Notes

Wednesday: Writing Classes and Methods, Documentation and APIs

• Writing Classes and Methods (Ch 3)
• Documentation and Javadoc
• Power Generator start code
• Using our game engine (FANG)
• Template class for starting a FANG game
• Practice with the FANG engine
• Chapter 3 Notes
• FANG intro notes
• Day 3 Notes

Thursday: Applets; Sprite Customization; Logic, Flow, and Control

• Applets on the Web
• Lab: Exporting a jar from Eclipse (see Day 3 Notes )
• Lab: Adding applets to your pages (see Day 3 Notes )
• Lab: Making custom sprites with GIMP
• Logic, Flow and Control (Ch 6)
• Lab: Monty Hall Problem, and a start
• Chapter 6 Notes

Friday: Iteration

• Making a help file for your game
• Topic: Iteration (Ch 7)
• Lab: Dot Patterns [starter project]
• Chapter 7 Notes

Saturday: Catch-up and some History

• Film: History of Video Games (Discovery)
• Lab: Sites, applets, catch-up

WEEK TWO: Deeper into the rabbit hole...

Monday: Debugging and Data Containers

• Topic: Simple Debugging
• Topic: Data Containers: Arrays and ArrayLists (Ch 8)
• Lab: Lights Out!, and an example
• Topic: Trackers
• Lab: Breakout
• Chapter 8 Notes

Tuesday: Networking and Catchup

• Lab: Making Wackadot multiplayer. If your Wackadot is too modded to use for this tutorial here is a "clean" single player Wackadot.
• Lab: Any prior work
• Lab: Asteroids

Wednesday: Classes, Files, and Simulation

• Topic: Simulation and Timing (Alarms)
• Lab: Alarm tutorial
• Discussion: Can games reproduce real life?
• Topic: File I/O, [practice project]
• Lab: Game of Life [good test]

Thursday: Something old, something new

• Review!
• Topic: Networking
• Topic: Event Handling and Interrupts
• Topic: Physics and Collisions
• Topic: Artificial Intelligence
• Topic: Graphics [1][2]
• Lab: Catching up

Friday: Shine Thief!

Saturday: Ethics

• Film: King of Kong
• Discussion of film

WEEK THREE: So long and thanks for all the fish!

Monday: Game Theory and final projects

• Final Project Brainstorming and Approvals

Tuesday-Friday: Final Project