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Food Catcher

Experience: 1st year, 4th quarter
Practice: Creating computational artifacts, Collaborating around computing, Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture, Testing and refining computational artifacts, and Communicating about computing
Concept: Algorithms, Control, Modularity, and Variables
Length: 80+

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Coder Resources

Project Sequence

Project Extensions

Debugging Exercises

Example Project and Files

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Food Catcher

Project Sequence

2. Create player controls

3. Make the Food sprite fall

4. Use variables to keep score

5. Make the game progressively faster

8. Add in comments

Project Extensions

1. Add sounds and music

Customize sounds

Randomize a single sound

2. Fill the bowl

3. Make good and bad sprites

4. Create a game over condition

5. Create a high score

6. Create a start button

7. Make clones (Advanced)

9. Share your project

10. Create a thumbnail

Debugging Exercises

Example Project and Files

2. Video: Project preview (1:06)

Project preview

3. Video: Remixing a project (1:57)

Remixing a project

4. Video: How to reverse engineer a project (2:16)

How to reverse engineer a project