What was the name of the presenter and what company did he work for?
The name of the presenter is Sean Halliday. He worked at Electronic Arts.
What prior experience did you have with coding?
The experiences I had in the past was with scratch in Business class in Grade 9 and again this year in Grade 10 to. If u didn’t know what scratch is its basically a program that gives starters who are learning coding a brief idea and a demo to what their going to be doing higher on in the their study. It gives you codes and you can make a sprite do specific thing with those codes.
What positive experiences did you have with working through the space invaders tutorials?
So to start off with I had no clue you actually have to write out code yourself and the process is very long. I only used scratch and there were codes already made for us so I was blank when he came in and told us he wrote code. I learned how to make various codes and how to change up what specific thing for example if u was to change the number of speed the ship is moving there will be a specific spot for it on the code. So this really opened eyes how hard it is to code. we were lucky we only had to copy paste the code to the write spot otherwise writing it out would be a real challenge because I learned even if you have one letter wrong in the code your game would say error and you would have to go look back and see what you did wrong.
What negative experiences did you have with working through the space invaders tutorials?
I think the only one negative experience I had was that we had to copy paste the codes it would be nice if he taught us what to type out when we coded so we had a brief idea how to do it. Like no one knew how to actually write code and how to correct our self if there was a mistake. So the negative experience for me in the end was just that he didn’t really expand.
Show an example of some of the code that you changed and what was the result?
I don’t really have a example of the code because I didn’t save the file but one thing I did in the program was playing around with the speed of the ship. Like how fast I can make the ship go for example if the ship code was ( 06.0f; ) I assumed 6 was the speed so I would’ve changed it to a 21 or 30 to see if it worked if it didn’t work I can always open up the game save the code I did and if it was successful it would work but if it wasn’t it would just show a grey screen with error that’s when you would generally know that you did something wrong and should change it up, Another example was when I used the lasers to create multiple lasers like if there one going at once I would make it shoot 7 lasers at once so overall it was a really good experience.
If we had more time, what are some things that we could do to make this assignment better?
Again as I mentioned before I would get the guest speaker to expand a little bit about coding and actually teach us how to write out our own code and show us what important things we should know because all we were doing was copy pasting that really didn’t help us out on how to change up code and how to write it out our self on our own. So I hope he comes again and teaches us how to write out code and how to make a game or change it up by writing the code out because we were totally blank of what he was doing and what he was trying to teach us.
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