Mar 14: Greenfoot Tutorial

Learning Objectives

After today's class, you should be able to:

• Open and run a scenario in Greenfoot, and manually create new objects.
• Implement an act() method that responds to pressing the arrow keys.
• Explain what "Save the World" means and how the code is implemented.

Lesson Outline

Demo [10 min]

• Example "scenarios" (programs) from the Greenfoot Book

Install [10 min]

• Go to the Download page and select the installer for your OS

Tutorial [30 min]

• Interacting with Greenfoot
• Movement and Key Control
• Detecting and Removing Actors, and Making Methods
• Saving the World, Making and Playing Sound
• Adding a Randomly Moving Enemy