Topics Covered

• An introduction to the course, programming and the development environment for building the mobile game.
• Setting up the software
• Setting up the testing environment for your game
• Debugging and operators.
• Different data types and variables
• Introduction to operators
• Applying variables and operators to the game
• Modifying the game to change the speed of the ball and moving the ball to a position specified by user.
• Conditional statements and comments.
• Array variables and looping constructs.
• Modifying the program to make the ball stay on the screen and adding a control paddle for the user.
• Modifying the game to include multiple target objects for the ball to bounce from. The target objects are implemented using arrays and accessed using ‘for’ loops.
• How to decide which algorithm is required to solve more complex tasks.
• Considering which algorithm to implement, to modify the game.
• Functions or methods – separate parts of a program.
• Modifying the program using functions to replace any repeated code.
• Consolidation of the course – analysing the game.
• Considering the process behind implementing another game.