Hello Judy, I agree that games can offer lots of opportunities and the students have a reasonable understanding of what they are trying to do and why. Mr. Rossi mentioned Simon. Board games can use "dice", special direction "cards", a timer or countdown gauge, and a way to keep score… all allowing incremental additions to the complexity. I find Magic 8 Ball and Mad Libs are also good games for first time projects.
Sincerely, Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------ On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Judy Perry wrote: > >> If you had a month, meaning, 4 long sessions or 8 shorter sessions, to get >> an absolute Joe Public to make something small but semi-interesting in LC, >> i.e., something they couldn't do in PowerPoint, what are the top 5 things >> you'd want them to learn about programming? >> >> I mean, I'm guessing it's something like IDE, Stack-Card metaphor, >> commands, functions, conditionals, variables... but I'm looking for those >> categories along with some specific examples per my caveats below. > > Looking at this from a project point of view, I'd suggest building a music > player and/or media player. There are a bunch of concepts to learn: > - media/file handling > - control logic > - interface layout and display > > Seeing and/or hearing the results of a project can be very gratifying for > students who are new to programming. > > Other possibilities: > - Calculator > - Clock (digital and/or analog) > - Simon game > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
