User:TracyKite



Ant simulation: Added variables like obsticles, extra food do affect the simulation in the respect that they give the ants other things to consider. In the original simulation the random pattern of forging wouldn't include these variables but I can see where students could create other levels to represent these factors.

The computational thinking quiz should be included in this unit to verify if the students are truly getting the concepts OR are they just copying the patterns from the tutorial/other kids?

Rubric for PacMan:

Using the Lesson Plans and requirements for the pacman seesions at Boulder students would be required to:

Have key controlled pacman

Pac eats pellets

Ghost move random

Ghost collide with pacman

For advanced credit:

lives

score

multiple pacmen



June 8, 2010

When the ghosts quit chasing the pacman add this code to the trackPacman method. Otherwise, they are doing only the greater than on the scent.

Be sure to look at the wiki for the tutorial videos on diffusion and hill climb

June 3, 2010 As an introduction I am a computer science teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Pueblo, Colorado. I teach grades PK - 8th grade. Over the school year I teach 150 students. 60 of those are middle school.

Last year I joined the agentsheets. We call it iDREAMS. My students in grades 6 - 8 created Frogger in the week session. Then Sokoban and PacMan in the remainder weeks of the semester. I have students who are on fire for the program and will easily bypass my knowledge soon! UNLESS I keep coming up to get help!!

The only negative I have experienced is the extreme interest from the students. They wanted to absorb every empty minute I had in the computer lab...IF that is a negative!