User Tools

Site Tools


spcs:2015:day7

Day 7 - Tuesday

Yesterday's Puzzle: I have a bar graph. I want to fill it with water. Write me an algorithm that will calculate how much water it will hold. How efficient is it? How can you make it better?

Activities/Announcements

  • Survey
    1. Do you want to have a party on Friday?
    2. Will you or your parents be able to make food for you to bring?
    3. Will your parents come watch a final ceremony/activity?
    4. Do you want your parents to come?
  • Tronster
  • AI

Class Assignments

  1. Processing - Make a Rock, Paper, Scissors game. Make the following AI's
    1. Always Scissors
    2. Random Strategy
    3. Try to make a smarter AI
    4. Try to make an AI that LEARNS the patterns of the user
    5. If you finish early, then try another simple game like Tic Tac Toe
    6. PLEASE UPLOAD TO GITHUB
  2. Art - Do an animation in Piskel: http://piskelapp.com
    1. Save the link to your artwork
    2. Export the gif file

Homework

  • Blog Post: Artificial Intelligence: What is AI? How would you explain it? Document ALL your projects.
  • Blog Post: FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL!!! Pick 3 topics from this list to do your Final Presentation on… Final Project Topics
    • For each topic, try to explain what it is
    • Then explain why it is interesting
    • (It doesn't have to be long)
  • Puzzle Solution - Please turn in the answer to the interview puzzle with the water in the bar graph. What is your algorithm? What is the runtime? Can you think of a better way to do it? Please turn in the assignment on one page.
  • Guest Speaker - Tomorrow we have guest speaker Noah Falstein who is Google's Chief Game Designer. Please think of a question to ask him.
  • Improve your past work: Double check your work, and make sure your blog is complete. Make sure you have completed all blogs. Finish anything you didn't get to do today. Improve anything that you can! Lots of pictures!!!
  • Blog Post: Game Review - no more game reviews, since people are having trouble turning in homeworks.

Teams

  • Jack, Evangeline
  • Bran, Cindy
  • Lisa, Samuel
  • Chris, Wilson
  • Kyle, Frank
  • Hollis, Peter, Toby
  • Michael, Jeff
  • Mike, Billy
/soe/sherol/.html/teaching/data/pages/spcs/2015/day7.txt · Last modified: 2015/07/13 23:55 by ffpaladin