Week 2 Notes

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Day 1: For Loops on Pygame

Today, students learned how to use for loops.

• Explain For Loops
• Nested For Loops
• Functions with Arguments
• For Loop Demo
• Pygame Animation
  • Rain, Meteor, Basketball, etc.
  • For Loops Exercise

Day 2:

Have the students make a for loop that prints the text in uppercase. Then another function that uses range to add consecutive numbers together. Build the color gradient display app.

• For Loops (review)
• Pygame Window Color Changer

Day 3:

The students will work on a restaurant app which lets them order menu items they create and then returns the total price.

• Dictionaries
• Return
• Different menus

Day 4:

We worked on using pygame to create a “quitter” which would quit when an event happened. We then added features to build more complex applications. Eventually the students could move the text in their window using the arrow keys.

• Quitter Files
• While Loops
• Event Loops
• Pygame font commands