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🛠 Making {

✨ Actually making our work isn’t just about knowing the syntax and commands of JavaScript and p5, it’s about coming up with ideas that we can actually work on and be excited about! ✨

Learning objectives

• Overcoming the terror of having to have an idea for a program
• Building from an idea through to a thorough plan through to pseudocode
• Understanding the connections (and fun!) from idea all the way to implementation

Template

• template-p5-project.zip

Modules

Vimeo playlist for Making

(Inline links below are for YuJa)

• Having ideas
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Having ideas notes
• From idea to plan
  • Watch the video
  • Read the From idea to plan notes
• Writing pseudocode
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Writing pseudocode notes
• Implementation
  • Watch the video
  • (If you want to) Download the finished Frogfrogfrog Project and/or play Frogfrogfrog online

🔥 Hot tip: Assets are less important than code

You know how easy it is to get obsessed with making the perfect image or the most delectable sound? That burning desire to spend a rainy afternoon drawing and redrawing the main character from your game?

Try to avoid that unless you have the time to spare. In this course, at least, the most important thing is your code. You’re better off having a great program that looks like a bunch of circles than a really basic program that has amazing graphics.

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