U20 Deadline Changed

Due to the closure of college the deadline is now Thursday 9th December 4:15

Use your time wisely

Eric

Unit 20 Deadline extension

I have extended the deadline to Monday 6th December.

You need to hand in your print outs for the sections you want changing, to me during the lessons.

Do not attempt to give me individual pages, as I am not going to spend my team searching for what to replace. If you made a change to Jayne's evaluation then re-print the entire evaluation. This will not work if you did not use page breaks, so be careful as to what you need to actually re-print.

Unit 20 Final deadline

The referral deadline for the unit 20 folders is

Referral deadline Thursday 25th November

You will need to hand in your entire folder, this will not be returned, if you do not hand in you folder on this day then I will not give you referrals, do not attempt to hand me folders on Monday - you have been warned.

I will mark the folders over the weekend and give you a current final mark based on the work you have presented to me on Monday 29th November.

I will also provide you with referral work to do, you will not get your folders back but can submit corrections based on the referrals I have given you. You cannot work on this during lessons as we will be working on the Game programming unit. These corrections will need to be given to me personally by:

Final deadline Friday 3rd December

If you do not hand in corrections by this date then they will not be included.

If I do not receive your folder at all by this deadline then you will receive a non submission mark (that is ZERO) and be asked to pay the £20 fee for your portfolio entry.

Please read this message carefully.

Homework - Jayne, Hari and Toma Solutions

The solutions for Jayne, Hari and Toma need completing by the end of next week.

Make sure that you explain how the components of the solution work together by walking the reader through a couple of examples of how Jayne will complete a suitable task. Ensure you print drafts and hand to me so I can check through and make sure you are targeting the right stuff.

We will move onto the evaluation and client reports next week (starting with Jayne's), so we need these out of the way.

Homework: Game Focus group minutes and Mind map

You need to complete your minutes from your focus group and from this create the mind map (see portfolio guide for an example of the mind map).

It is important that this is titled to show that this comes from the discussion in the focus group.

This needs handing in by Thursday 7th October (next week)

Palmer's Classic Arcade Game Competition 2010 scores

Current submissions
(submit screenshots to ebarwell@palmers.ac.uk)

Bomb Jack
187, 450 Eric Barwell
98, 510 James White
60, 190 Jade Bennett
39, 570 David Thorpe
38, 740 Christian Gee
8, 090 Bradley Mills

City Bomber
914, 725 Adam Wakefield
385, 325 Jack Kemp
345, 510 Christian Gee
339, 900 David Thorpe
281, 335 Bradley Mills
263, 830 James White
125, 540 Eric Barwell
110, 050 Hope Busby-Saywood
16, 170 Lawrence Smith

Donkey Kong
90, 200 Tom Bottjer
62, 700 Eric Barwell
44, 900 Kasim Rai
39, 800 Tommy Blackman
26, 500 Lewis Williams
24, 600 Dan Squirell
23, 800 Ben Moloney
14, 600 David Thorpe

Frogger
16, 290 Eric Barwell
12, 580 David Thorpe
8, 130 Tommy Blackman

Galaga
106, 730 Jonathon Rowley
85, 230 Eric Barwell
64, 860 Joe Smith-Allen
45, 310 Hope Busby-Saywood
9, 200 Tommy Blackman

Ghosts 'n' Goblins
69, 900 David Thorpe
58, 600 James Heginbottom
10, 400 Eric Barwell

Scramble
28, 540 Eric Barwell
13, 260 Jade Bennett
9, 630 James White
8, 060 Jake Larsen
5, 320 Lawrence Smith

Wonderboy
88, 310 Lawrence Smith
78, 000 James Heginbottom
68, 670 V-Jay McSweeney
32, 940 Eric Barwell
24, 850 David Thorpe

Zoo Keeper
543, 310 Thomas James
363, 450 Jade Bennett
344, 000 David Thorpe
160, 050 Eric Barwell
145, 300 Sidonie Gander
129, 130 Adam Wakefield
64, 780 Alex Pitt

Final week of competition

The following games have not really been competed for (single person submissions).

Crystal castles
Donkey Kong Jr
Pheonix

They will be removed from the competition at the end of Today (Tuesday) if no competing scores are submitted.


This will leave the following active games

Bomb Jack
City Bomber
Donkey Kong
Frogger
Galaga
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Scramble
Wonderboy
Zookeeper

Closing date for entries is 23:59 Sunday 11^th July 2010

Palmer's Classic Arcade Game Competition 2010

You are invited to compete for prizes in the annual Classic arcade game competition, these games are played using the arcade emulator. You may only play games during workshop Do not attempt to play games during your lessons. For details of how to play in the competition please speak to me in Workshop on Monday or Thursday dinner time in E19.

In order to be eligible for the competition you need to be either a Single/Double ICT or Computing Student. Scores will be submitted by some of the leaving second year students (as a form of friendly rivalry), but they will not be able to win any prizes.

Entries are accepted from Monday, 21^st June 2010
Screenshots can be submitted by e-mail to me (ebarwell@palmers.ac.uk) up to 23:59 Sunday 11^th July 2010.

The 12 games selected are as follows:

• City Bomber
• Space Invaders part II
• Wonderboy
• Donkey Kong
• Donkey Kong Jr
• Tron (use mouse for aim and fire - cursors to move)
• Bomb Jack
• Ghosts 'n' Goblins
• Scramble
• Crystal castles (mouse controls Bently - can jump)
• Pheonix
• Tempest (use mouse for accuracy and control)
• Frogger (newly added)
• Galaga (newly added)
• Zoo Keeper (newly added)

General rules are no cheating, no continues, no setting difficulty to stupid easy

A new blog entry will be created with a list of all the games and current score submissions.

Good Luck

Eric

U17 Final Deadline

The final deadline for the game programming unit is:

Friday 30^th April 2010

This is an absolute deadline, there will be no normal referral process, you must ensure that your work is up to date and complete.

If you fail to submit your work (you are advised to submit before the deadline to avoid printing issues) you will receive a zero submission mark.

There can be no extension to this deadline due to a fixed exam board deadline that I need to adhere to.

Wednesday 27th Jan While I'm away

I will not be in today so you must ensure that you use your time wisely.

Do not sit around talking as the work you have to do will not go away.

You should be ideally working on your subroutine list or writing up your sprite subroutine descriptions in structured English. Make sure you remember to include the use of any parameters where sprite subroutines use them. If you have completed all of those then go back to your code and start working on the xml comments

press \\\ on the line immediately above each subroutine and variable and fill in the summary (and any parameters listed). This is crucial work.

You need to ensure you read the assignment guide on the U17 section of the Intranet for the details.

I will hopefully be back in on Thursday.

How to Create an Organisation chart in Visio (video)

I've created and uploaded a video showing how to create your Top Down designs using the Organisation chart template in Visio.

I recorded in HD so for the best detail make sure you select the HD setting

Here's the video link