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Character Builder

Experience: 1st year, 2nd quarter
Practice: Creating computational artifacts, Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture, Testing and refining computational artifacts, and Communicating about computing
Concept: Algorithms, Control, and Variables
Length: 90+

Overview video Google Docs logo

Coder Resources

Project Sequence

Project Extensions

Debugging Exercises

Example Project and Files

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Character Builder

Project Sequence

1. How to remix the Character Builder project

3. Create custom costumes

Additional Resources

Image editor: Bitmap mode (5:16)

Image editor: Vector mode (5:00)

4. Make sprites draggable

5. Review

Create custom buttons

Code your buttons

Indicate a button is pressed

Hold down a button

Reset a sprite’s appearance

6. Create a character builder

Friendly reminder

7. Add in comments

Project Extensions

2. Match sounds to a costume

3. Create music player controls (Advanced)

4. Share your project

5. Create a thumbnail

Debugging Exercises

Example Project and Files

3. Video: Project Preview (1:33)

Project Preview

4. Video: Remixing a project (2:42)

Remixing a project

5. Video: How to reverse engineer a project (2:29)

How to reverse engineer a project