Events in the Ice Age

In this lesson, you are guided through a story featuring characters from Ice Age. You will work with events and loops to make characters move on the screen, and will get the chance to create their own game or story after the guided levels.

Objective

You will be able to:

• Identify actions that correlate to input events.
• Create an animated, interactive game using sequence and events.

You will use events to

• make characters from Ice Age move around the screen
  
• display messages
  
• interact with other characters based on user input.
  
• you will have fun learning events in programming
  
• show creativity!
  
• At the end of the puzzle sequence, you will be able to share your project!

 Events in Programming

• Event: An action that causes something to happen.

Cities can declare events

• There are laws that say "when there is a green light, the cars can move through the intersection".
• What does the red light tell drivers to do?

Today, you will use events to make a game with characters from Ice Age, but the events will be more like the video game events. Events will take the form of actions, such as pressing the up arrow or two characters running into each other.

Power of Words

Cyberbullying is real. Below is a list of things that are okay to say online and things that are not okay to say online.

Okay to say online

• You are my friend.
• I like your new haircut.
• Did you finish your homework?

NOT okay to say online

• You are an idiot.
• I'm having a party and you're not invited.
• You are ugly.
• You are such a freak.

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