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Beginning Tutorials
- Online or local version of the paint and handles tutorial at Squeakland tutorials page.
- See also/instead Kathleen's introduction & tutorials (in particular, squeak notebook section I (3-28-05).doc) for learning about paint and handles.
- Special comments re painting:
- Paint one object by itself, then "keep". Don't paint multiple objects all at once, otherwise they will not be separately controllable.
- Paint the background separately.
- Don't spend lots of time painting. Things can be made to look pretty later. We want to spend most of our time learning how to program, not playing with paiting.
- Handles/Halo tutorial
- Car tutorial with joystick (not standard car tutorial) (Text version on Squeak How-To (joy) page). Steps to include:
- Draw a simple blob/car with wheels, top view
- Notice x, y coords
- Simple script for motion
- Explore panes basic, geometry, motion, and properties, actions (scripts/methods)
- Change ticking speed, change forward amt/tick.
- Fire once vs. ticking
- Control with joystick
- Draw background road with two different colored edges
- Steer with joystick while staying on road
- Tear off test and use tire color over grass color test to stop script
- Tear off test and use color over to turn left if on right edge, right if on left edge
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