4th Class Day

Today was another great day. We started off by learning about what layers were. Mr. Howe explained that they were like a cake, where you have screens on top of one another, each one having its own use. He said that a lot of the games now-a-day have layers, including Angry Birds and Bejeweled. So, after learning about them, can you guess what we did next? We added layers to our new game! First, we started with a D-Pad that would control our plane, and luckily Mr. Howe let us copy and paste a very difficult set of rules so it was much easier. Amazingly, I did not have any errors, and it worked perfectly. We could adjust the speed of our plane and make it go in all directions. I tried increasing the speed by 5000 times, and when I tapped barely to the right of the center of the D-Pad, the plane just took off and it was long gone! That was the next thing that we were going to work on: boundaries for our plane. But that was to come after lunch.

We came back ready to work. We first made a left boundary, but then decided to add a shooting button for the plane. We again used a code that Mr. Howe had set aside for us, and there we had it, a shooting button. The button was clickable, but it did not shoot anything. We then made a bullet and made it move! The slight problem was that it was not coming from the plane, it just started moving in the middle of the screen, and Mr. Howe said that since class was almost over, we would fix this problem tomorrow.

I am starting to understand what is going on much more in class, and I am keeping up with the work, rarely falling behind. I am excited about tomorrow because I am almost positive we will have a shooting plane that can kill monsters! It is also very cool because this is a legitimate app that people would buy (if there weren't copyright issues), and all my friends will think it is the coolest thing ever.