Beginning to Code!

Today's Agenda:

1. 15 minutes: Overview, Introductions, and Balloon Mixer
• Complete get-to-know-you survey here.
2. 45 minutes: Coordinate System & Hunt
3. 45 minutes: Getting to Know the ZR Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
4. 45 minutes: What's the Logic? (PB&J-style)
• Learn how peanut butter and jelly relates to CS
5. 30 minutes: Getting Your SPHERE Lined Up
• An array is a data type that stores multiple pieces of data in one place.
• See some examples.
• Then try your hand at using them in ZR with the Introduction to Arrays and the setPositionTarget tutorial.
6. 60 minutes: Learning All the Right Moves:
• Learn about rotating the SPHERES satellites and complete a two-part tutorial to learn more about how to use arrays to move the satellites:
• More Simple Arrays and the setAttitudeTarget Function
• More Simple Arrays–Another Way to Initialize Variables
7. 30 minutes: Reviewing the Game:
• Rewatch ZR game introduction video.
• View the game overview slideshow to review some of the game details.
• Preview the Acting out the CosmoSPHERES Game for tomorrow's field trip.

Our Field Trip to NASA Ames Research Center is Tomorrow:

• Arrive at the YMCA by 9:00 AM. Our bus will leave promptly!
• Please bring a sack lunch with you.