====== Day 1 - Monday ====== ===== Activities ===== * Coin Balancing Problem ===== Assignments ===== * **Interactive Fiction** - Using Twine software, try to figure out how to compose a good story. Use online tutorials for information to teach yourself the software. Your story must have these components: - Think something very wrong in the world that needs to be better - Create a story that tries to make someone cry or laugh - Use this Interactive Fiction to help make the world better in some way - There must be at least 2 happy endings and 1 very silly ending. You can have as many other endings as you want - If you finish early try to learn the advanced features - http://twinery.org/wiki/twine2:guide * **GitHub Setup** * Go to https://github.com/ * Sign up * Go to https://github.com/ffpaladin * Follow Me! - Please write down your login info, so you don't lose it. {{::screen_shot_2014-06-18_at_6.23.41_pm.png|}} * **Set Up Website** - Using Lofter, please make 3 pages for the navigation bar - **About Me** - This is a page about who you are. Please answer these questions and put at least one image - What are your passions? - What do you want to do when you grow up, study at the University, or work professionally? - What would would like to learn and find most interesting about technology, computer science, games, or this class? - **Connect** - This page will be a page of links. Please put 3 links of your choice on this page. Then add your **GitHub** profile page from the previous assignment. - **Resume** - This page is about your accomplishments. Make a list of your clubs and activities, talents, leadership positions, jobs, and other skills. You do not have to put everything, just a few things for now. * **Blog Post** - (A BLOG POST IS NOT A PAGE) Review your favorite game. Why do you like it so much. Please include a picture. * Fill out this form when you are done: http://www.wenjuan.com/s/NBne6f/ ==== Homework ==== * **Post**: Number Systems. Research why we have a "base 10" counting system, and write about it. Write about what the number systems are. Explain how to convert 11011011 into a decimal number. Make sure you define what a binary number is and how it is different than a decimal number. You can use the internet, but link to what references helped you learn. Must include an image. * **Post**: Write About Your Game. What game did you make in Twine today? Write about the story and take an interesting screenshot of the game/story. Also, you must include your github link to it. Every post must have a photo. * **READING** - Please read the Game Design Basics paper.