Wednesday, October 1st

Today I watched 2 videos. I re watched the end of the video about dealing errors, and so that cleared up a few things for me. After that, I watched video #26 which was about inserting text into the world.

It turns out that we continued to work with the Ball world.

In the video about text, we learned about simply inserting text into the world. This text could say whatever we waned it to, could be placed wherever we wanted it to be placed. A text like this could be placed with the purpose of telling the player the instructions of the game. For example, in the ball world, we added text that said : "click the mouse to add balls". And it was as simple as that.

We also added text that moves during gameplay. That is supposed to move during gameplay. We added a new actor subclass like with the instructions, called "counter". We made 3 method inside the counter class: the Counter one ( constructor), an addScore one, and an Update one. In the Update class, we made the visuals, and in the Counter constructor, we used those parameters and also made sure that the counter would start from 0. In the addScore method, we simply added 1 to the score.
Although we created a counter, it was nothing like the one we had to deal with in the Turtle World, and in the end, we didn't even put it to use as it was much more complicated and the video was simply about adding text.

This is what the world looks like:

The next video that we watched was about object interaction (a very complicated video). It didn't even use the Ball world and used one that he had created himself and it was like a brickbreaker game without the bricks. He talked for a long time and I did not really understand all that he said...
When I watch videos like those I get very confused, and sometimes even frustrated. I don't understand anything, and when I asked some other people that used Greenfoot they said that they were also confused. Aren't these things maybe a level above what we know?


Apart from that, today I made a decision. I've decided that I won't be doing something specific to show for my presentation. The reason for that is simply that I won't have enough time to finish it, and I don't want to present a project that's half finished. I will still have lots of things to talk about.