12. Frameworks

Week 12 (November 20)

Due: 3.3 Retro lab

Assigned: 3.5 Game project

Design patterns, managing complexity through abstractions. Working within frameworks. Introduction to Retro game framework. Game project proposal due.

Notes

• Introduce Retro games framework.
• Three big ideas:
  • Frameworks
  • Documentation
  • Teachers as designers
• Please submit your game proposal this week.

• The Pedagogy of Programming
• Assignments
• Department-Wide Policies
• Schedule
• 1. Imperative programming
• 2. Variables and functions
• 3. Control structures
• 4. Planning
• 5. Functional programming
• 6. Processing data
• 7. Distributed computing
• 8. Data science tools
• 9. Debugging and testing
• 10. Object-oriented programming
• 11. Strategy
• 12. Frameworks
• 13. Simulation
• 14. Wrap-up
• Syllabus