Be rich and miserable or decent living and love what I do?? - For me this is easy...I would rather making an average wage and love what I do! And honestly, I'm living that now! I walked away from a beginning career (in accounting) that would have me making more money now (if I had stayed in it) but got out of it after a year and a half to get into teaching. I knew the money wouldn't be as good making the switch. But it's a decision I have never regretted because today I still love my job and I still make a salary I won't ever complain about. Find something you love to do every day and do it!
Grades Updated - As you saw in an email over the weekend, I have updated your grades with both the Pong Tutorials and Customizations. As I also mentioned in that email, there was a huge decrease in the number of assignments I received here. If you are behind right now because of your other classes, again I completely understand and just ask that you get these to me as soon as you can.
When is the Last Day I Can Turn In Work? - Even though we are a few weeks away, it's important to start talking about when late work is due. All missing work needs to be turned in as soon as you can get it into me. However the last day I will accept ANY missing work is Friday, May 15th. It's important to understand I will NOT accept ANY missing work after this date. The following week is finals week and I want you to be able to know what your updated grade is going into turning in the final project (which we'll be talking about soon).
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Today's Tasks/Assignment:
Issues with "Asteroids" - Some of you have expressed having issues with the Asteroids tutorial and customization with regards to the "master asteroid" and the fact it won't destroy and instead will take your spaceship out in one hit. I experienced this same issue. Couple of things:
Make sure 2 arches are surrounding your master asteroid. They should be facing inward toward the asteroid (almost forming a circle around it when you face them toward the asteroid.
Make sure the 2 arches and the asteroid are all part of the same class (you should have created a class called "Asteroids" where all three objects should be at)
Make sure your master asteroid is far off the playing area and out of sight when the game starts. This will more than likely insure that your master asteroid will never come at you in the game.
Complete the Customization of "Asteroids" - I know we usually start a new game tutorial today. But we'll do that Wednesday instead. So if you need to please finish the Asteroids Customization. Directions on what to include can be found on last week's pages (4/23 and 4/24)
Turn in both your Asteroids Tutorial and Asteroids Customization to the forms you see below
Items Due:Customization of "Asteroids" (Now Due Wed, 4/29)
Click above to play "Asteroids - Star Wars Edition" (sound effects would have been perfect here; but my computer kept freezing when downloading them)