I think that we could do most of the games with the game logic I can hand off to them in Turtle Art. They won't be doing the back-end programming, but I think they'll learn a lot and they'll have a lot of latitude in creating their games.
-walter On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Greg Smith<gregsmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > That looks cool. Will it allow the kids to make the games they described? > > The hardest one may be the last. From the screen shot, it looks like > you don't need to learn a lot of Turtle logic to play the game but you > may need to learn it to create new games. > > Do you plan to use this new game type in class tomorrow? > > I'll see you then. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > ************* > Well, I couldn't help myself: > > See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:State-game.png > > It was pretty easy to code in Turtle Art :) > > -walter > > ************* > >>> Walter has given the kids a challenge to make their own game. They >>> came up with 6 examples of games they want to make: >>> 1. Guatemala. Departments numbered and corresponding to images on the map. >>> 2. Sports team logos in the US. Then find the state or city for each team. >>> 3. Presidents. Match pictures of presidents with names. >>> 4. Presidents mashup (word used by kid!). Take a jumbled up a list of >>> pictures of presidents and put them in order. >>> 5. Countries and states in North America. >>> 6. "Find me". Start with an animation of a spinning globe. Find north >>> america and show that. Find US, find MA, Find Boston, Find Allston, >>> Find Gardner Pilot Academy. One kid yelled out then find the desk in >>> the office. > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel