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IS313 Today: projects!. Project plans. AI?. VPool (Jonathan). I hope I'm involved!. Picobot! (Michael). Go (Charles). Dice (and RegDice!) (James). PyGame – Snake! (Mohammed Alateeq). PyGame – Tarot!! (Karen Sun). PyGame – Collector!!! (Baris A.). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
IS313 Today: projects!
AI?
UI?
Project plansI hope I'm involved!
Dice (and RegDice!) (James)
PyGame – Snake! (Mohammed Alateeq)
PyGame – Tarot!! (Karen Sun)
PyGame – Collector!!! (Baris A.)
PyGame – Pong!!!! (Sarah A.)
PyGame – PicoGirl!!!!! (Maria A.)
Go (Charles)
Restaurant rating/Django (Peter)
Tic-tac-toe player (Payal)
Scholarship survey (Zara, Roni, Joanne)+map-based writing prompt
Picobot! (Michael)
Mystery (M. Alyami & Abdul A.)
VPool (Jonathan)
Kyle (Tea-file documentation)
Google event tracker (Joe)
SillyLibs! (Amin and Mohammad)
Binary object DB (Jeff w/Twitter + OCR)
Thanks to Kyle… !
IS313 Schedule
Monday, Nov. 29 - no class meeting...
Wednesday, Dec. 1 - preliminary.zip due ...
Monday, Dec. 6 - in-class project presentations...
Monday, Dec. 13 - no formal class meeting
Tuesday, Dec. 7 - intermediate.zip due ...
Friday, Dec. 17 - project.zip due ...
What does this mean?
1st of 3P's: Project preliminaries
What does this mean?(1) Get your libraries working!
(2) preliminary programming
(0) Choose your libraries…
For Dec. 1st…
Getting started !
Feel free to use existing code...
www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CS5/GoldRobots2010
VPython/VPool starting code...
+ be sure to explain how you've extended it, too...
What does this mean?
(1) An introduction and overview of your progress…
2nd of 3P's: Presentation
certainly no expectations that things are complete!
but they should be further along than preliminary
Example presentation
with running commentary !
feel free to use these slides as a starting point (but it's by no means required!)
this does not seem very original!
inspired by the three projects using PyGame
(one of which are implementing a Snake game!)
Project:
PySnake!
I usually imagine about 1 slide per minute, but this van vary considerably… Also, this will be longer than 10
minutes since there are so many parenthetical comments!
My goal is at least one picture per slide
PyGame: multi-platform (and means it!)
Libraries
Features: classes for 2d single-screen game support
Fun: supports sounds and game controllers, as well…
Resorting to unrelated pictures only when absolutely necessary…
but needs Python 2.6
No one writes programs from scratch!
Start with the example! (bouncing ball program)
Work Approach
Tinker: learning the library requires testing it out…
Planning: adjust this as you tinker…
You can probably
leave this slide out!
www.pygame.org/docs/tut/intro/intro.html
Your project: will need to extend any starter code...
Reading the FAQ and other online resources is a great place to start!
Suggestions?
Having a ball…
This is an interesting piece of advice… who wrote this ?!?
To go from Bouncing Ball to Snake!
Game Plan
Data structures:
There is always a set of data structures that
represents your application…
Describing these data structures is the
application design - or your "game plan" - especially when the
application is a game!
Inspiration:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~cs60grad/Spampede/
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~cs60grad/Spampede/Spring02/btagiku6
A 2d list of cells - similar to the game of life - each of which might have
a wall
empty space
food!
[ [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, … ], [ 1, 0, 0, 3, 4, … ], [ 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, … ], … ]
body and head
Design Where possible, include details…
Challenge:
How to display a gameboard cell?
Thus, the game knows what to color each cell based on the gameboard's contents…
empty space is 0
[ [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, … ], [ 1, 0, 0, 3, 4, … ], [ 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, … ], … ]
food is 2
gameboard =
Details Something about the library that required some work to
figure out!
Challenge:How about more than one!
To create a region of color, you blit an object of the Surface class
Result:
DetailsHow did these checkerboard
patterns arise?
2d lists are used to create patterns of different color surfaces…
Look familiar?
Walls and the Snake
That snake looks like it's in trouble!
The edges are set to be walls, and the snake is started in the upper left…
Problems?
Snake motionIt's always better to use descriptive
variable names!
The snake has one of five directions:
NORTH = ( -1, 0 )
something's missing…
SOUTH = ( +1, 0 )
WEST = ( 0, -1 )
EAST = ( 0, +1 )
STOPPED = ( 0, 0 ) This makes it easy to go
diagonally in the future, if we want to!
Snake controlIt's always better to use descriptive
variable names!
Need to use the kbd
NORTH = ( -1, 0 )
Crash!
SOUTH = ( +1, 0 )
WEST = ( 0, -1 )
EAST = ( 0, +1 )
STOPPED = ( 0, 0 ) This makes it easy to go
diagonally in the future, if we want to!
Key classIt's always better to use descriptive
variable names!
Need to use the kbd
NORTH = ( -1, 0 )
SOUTH = ( +1, 0 )
WEST = ( 0, -1 )
EAST = ( 0, +1 )
STOPPED = ( 0, 0 )
Note that capital Q is tricky to specify…
Key feature
Good variable names make the code self-documenting!
Response to food!
Snake = [ (1,1), (1,2) ]A list keeps track of the cells in the
Snake.
Response to walls and other
obstacles!
What should happen here?
Demo!
Still to go…What are you planning on
implementing before the final version?
Sound Need examples
AI modeI don't want to take time to play the game …
let's have the computer play it for me!
More than simple cells of color
BIGGER!
Done!
Not done…
Examples!
other resources
Problems encountered? Aargh!
error messages
too much spam!
Design question… That's me!
Which of these steps took the most time?
End of example presentationPhew!
ePortfolios…
1. Post your final project on your ePortfolio page in a .zip file
2. Include on the page a text description of
• What it does
• What software prerequisites it needs (libraries, Python)
• How to run it
• What you would add if you had more time
about a paragraph each
The 3rd P!
because software designers aren't the main users…
User interfaces are more difficult than they might seem...
User Inferfaces
No undo!
% ls
file1.txt file2.txt
file3.txt |
% rm *|
(long pause…)
Design for software and beyond
0. Conceptual
models
1. Mapping
2. Visibility
3. Feedback
4. Affordances
Don Norman's key principles:
Conceptual Models
Users always bring something "to the table"
these don't work!
Images from The Design of Everyday Things
Ony a human would think of
these!
Mapping
is matching expected (spatial) relationships
Where to plug in the keyboard and mouse?
?
Visibility
is making functionality apparent
Shower?Slide projector…
From: www.baddesigns.com
"I used to have that awful shower controller where you pull down on the nozzle to turn it on. I had to tell every guest how to do it, and when we sold our house, we got a call from the new owners about 5 days later asking how to turn on the shower. They had been taking baths for 5 days! Unbelievable." - BL
Feedback
providing information back to the user
from the UI Hall of Shame
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Outlook
http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/shame.htmBut some of us graphics aren't so lazy!
Affordances
are the functions that form suggests…
Opening the XO? Door handles
built-in user's manual
Where do these go wrong?Mapping
How to open this gas cap?
Visibility Feedback Affordances
This handle unfastens the seat from the
floor.
How to turn on this stove?
Set to 5 minutes?
Win NT Dialog
Lab / project …
preliminary.zip is due Dec. 1st!
Have a great Thankgiving weekend!
Remember: We do not meet on Mon., Nov. 29th...
Thinking about User Interfaces
Command Line Tablet / Touch
Ambient Information
Display Walls
Thinking about User Interfaces
What other types of human/computer interfaces can you think of?
#1 WI
MP
indowsconsenusointer
GUI
Affordances~ physical and cultural expectations
0. Conceptual models 1. Mapping
Matching user expectations e.g., Directory structures
Visibility and Feedback
Banks of glass doorsSlide projector
Affordances The functions that form suggests! Phone settings
Why is this a better design?
Keypad numbers layout
• A case of external inconsistency
1 2 34 5 6
7 8 9
7 8 9
1 2 3
4 5 6
0 0
(a) phones, remote controls(b) calculators, computer keypads
The project ideas…
Projects!
show text clouds !
local server…
Affordances: to give a clue• Affordances: The perceived and actual properties of an object that signal of the object can be used (from The Design of Everyday Things)
The project ideas…
Projects!
show text clouds !
local server…
Physical Affordances
Physical Affordances
What do the Zune wheel and the door handle have in common?
Virtual AffordancesClick Me Click Me
"Quiz"
Name(s):
Note the perceivedaffordances inthis interface.Are there anythat are missing?Misleading?
For next Thursday…
For Dec. 1st…
What does this mean?
(1) Get your libraries working!
(2) preliminary planning
(0) Choose your libraries…
For Dec. 1st…
What does this mean?
(1) Get your libraries working!
(2) preliminary planning
(0) Choose your libraries…
IS313 Today: projects!
AI?
UI?
Project plansI hope I'm involved!
Dice (and RegDice!) (James)
PyGame – Snake! (Mohammed Alateeq)
PyGame – Tarot!! (Karen Sun)
PyGame – Collector!!! (Baris A.)
PyGame – Pong!!!! (Sarah A.)
PyGame – PicoGirl!!!!! (Maria A.)
Go (Charles)
Restaurant rating/Django (Peter)
Tic-tac-toe player (Payal)
Scholarship survey (Zara, Roni, Joanne)+map-based writing prompt
Picobot! (Michael)
Mystery (M. Alyami & Abdul A.)
VPool (Jonathan)
Kyle (Tea-file documentation)
Google event tracker (Joe)
SillyLibs! (Amin and Mohammad)
Binary object DB (Jeff w/Twitter + OCR)
IS313 Schedule
Monday, Nov. 29 - no class meeting...
Wednesday, Dec. 1 - preliminary.zip due ...
Monday, Dec. 6 - in-class project presentations...
Monday, Dec. 13 - no formal class meeting
Tuesday, Dec. 7 - intermediate.zip due ...
Friday, Dec. 17 - project.zip due ...
What does this mean?(1) Get your libraries working!
(2) preliminary programming
(0) Choose your libraries…
For Dec. 1st…
Getting started !
Feel free to use existing code...
www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CS5/GoldRobots2010
VPython/VPool starting code...
+ be sure to explain how you've extended it, too...
What does this mean?
(1) An introduction and overview of your progress…
2nd of 3P's: Presentation
certainly no expectations that things are complete!
but they should be further along than preliminary
Example presentation
with running commentary !
feel free to use these slides as a starting point (but it's by no means required!)
this does not seem very original!
inspired by the three projects using PyGame
(one of which are implementing a Snake game!)
Project:
PySnake!
I usually imagine about 1 slide per minute, but this van vary considerably… Also, this will be longer than 10
minutes since there are so many parenthetical comments!
My goal is at least one picture per slide
PyGame: multi-platform (and means it!)
Libraries
Features: classes for 2d single-screen game support
Fun: supports sounds and game controllers, as well…
Resorting to unrelated pictures only when absolutely necessary…
but needs Python 2.6
No one writes programs from scratch!
Start with the example! (bouncing ball program)
Work Approach
Tinker: learning the library requires testing it out…
Planning: adjust this as you tinker…
You can probably
leave this slide out!
www.pygame.org/docs/tut/intro/intro.html
Your project: will need to extend any starter code...
Reading the FAQ and other online resources is a great place to start!
Suggestions?
Having a ball…
This is an interesting piece of advice… who wrote this ?!?
To go from Bouncing Ball to Snake!
Game Plan
Data structures:
There is always a set of data structures that
represents your application…
Describing these data structures is the
application design - or your "game plan" - especially when the
application is a game!
Inspiration:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~cs60grad/Spampede/
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~cs60grad/Spampede/Spring02/btagiku6
A 2d list of cells - similar to the game of life - each of which might have
a wall
empty space
food!
[ [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, … ], [ 1, 0, 0, 3, 4, … ], [ 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, … ], … ]
body and head
Design Where possible, include details…
Challenge:
How to display a gameboard cell?
Thus, the game knows what to color each cell based on the gameboard's contents…
empty space is 0
[ [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, … ], [ 1, 0, 0, 3, 4, … ], [ 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, … ], … ]
food is 2
gameboard =
Details Something about the library that required some work to
figure out!
Challenge:How about more than one!
To create a region of color, you blit an object of the Surface class
Result:
Walls and the Snake
That snake looks like it's in trouble!
The edges are set to be walls, and the snake is started in the upper left…
Problems?
Key classIt's always better to use descriptive
variable names!
Need to use the kbd
NORTH = ( -1, 0 )
SOUTH = ( +1, 0 )
WEST = ( 0, -1 )
EAST = ( 0, +1 )
STOPPED = ( 0, 0 )
Note that capital Q is tricky to specify…
Still to go…What are you planning on
implementing before the final version?
Sound Need examples
AI modeI don't want to take time to play the game …
let's have the computer play it for me!
More than simple cells of color
BIGGER!
Done!
Not done…
Examples!
other resources
Problems encountered? Aargh!
error messages
too much spam!
End of example presentationPhew!
ePortfolios…
1. Post your final project on your ePortfolio page in a .zip file
2. Include on the page a text description of
• What it does
• What software prerequisites it needs (libraries, Python)
• How to run it
• What you would add if you had more time
about a paragraph each
The 3rd P!
because software designers aren't the main users…
User interfaces are more difficult than they might seem...
Design for software and beyond
0. Conceptual
models
1. Mapping
2. Visibility
3. Feedback
4. Affordances
Don Norman's key principles:
Mapping
is matching expected (spatial) relationships
Where to plug in the keyboard and mouse?
?
Visibility
is making functionality apparent
Shower?Slide projector…
From: www.baddesigns.com
"I used to have that awful shower controller where you pull down on the nozzle to turn it on. I had to tell every guest how to do it, and when we sold our house, we got a call from the new owners about 5 days later asking how to turn on the shower. They had been taking baths for 5 days! Unbelievable." - BL
Feedback
providing information back to the user
from the UI Hall of Shame
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Outlook
http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/shame.htmBut some of us graphics aren't so lazy!
Affordances
are the functions that form suggests…
Opening the XO? Door handles
built-in user's manual
Where do these go wrong?Mapping
How to open this gas cap?
Visibility Feedback Affordances
This handle unfastens the seat from the
floor.
How to turn on this stove?
Set to 5 minutes?
Win NT Dialog
Lab / project …
preliminary.zip is due Dec. 1st!
Have a great Thankgiving weekend!
Remember: We do not meet on Mon., Nov. 29th...