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Introductory Programming Teaching with Greenfoot 3

Michael Kölling

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Wombats.

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Object Orientation

• Early understanding of key concepts is important

• class

• object

• state

• behaviour

• Not easy without tool support

• Most important: motivation

Asteroids, Ants and other creatures.

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An example

• little-crab-start.zip - Scenario

• Download from www.greenfoot.org/static/workshop

Crabs:

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Greenfoot classes

Actor GreenfootImage

Greenfoot

World

MouseInfo

GreenfootSound

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Actors

• image

• location (in the world)

• rotation

'Actors' have predefined state:

x

y

α

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Actor methods

• act()

• getX(), getY()

• setLocation(int x, int y)

• ...

inherited from class 'Actor'

Actor

Crab

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The act method

code goes here

Actor

Crab

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The Stride editor

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Movement

move(4)

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Make your own creature

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Exercises

move(4)

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Method calls

or

method-name ()

method-name (parameter)

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Method calls - examples

void move(int distance)

void turn(int angle)

void stop();

Specification: You write:

move (5)

turn (45)

stop ()

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Actor

boolean isAtEdge()

Actor

Crab

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Method calls - examples

boolean atEdge()

Specification:

You write:

true or false atEdge ()

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If statementstrue / false

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If statements

isAtEdge()

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Code completionCtrl-Space

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Exercise

• movement, edge detection, turning

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Turn at edge

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Some meta remarks...

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Other options

Move only when there is some noise!

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Modification and ownership

• Let students take control

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Keyboard input

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Worms...

• New subclass of Actor: Worm

• No behaviour needed

• Crabs eat worms... (collision detection)

See (from class Actor):

isTouching(Class clss) removeTouching(Class clss)

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Eating worms

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Some meta remarks...

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Reinforcement

• Students need practice and reinforcement

• Apply same concepts in different context

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Sound

• The crab project includes a sound file:

• "slurp.wav" (crab eats worm)

Recording sound

And now again in Java…

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Greenfoot Gallery

• Share!

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Workshop slides

• www.greenfoot.org/static/workshop

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Joy of Code videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/18km

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• Meet!

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