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Welcome to Springfield Township High School's Introduction to Computer Science with Game Design and Animation Wiki. This space is for students in this class. Each student will contribute to the area of their specialty.

We started this course out using Alice to learn the basic concepts of Computer Science. Alice is a free programming environment provided by Carnegie Mellon University. On their website, [|alice.org], they say, "The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students."

We then made the transition into Blitz3D, a more traditional programming language, although created specifically for game creation. We have worked our way through all the important aspects of 2D game design and coding. We have learned: variables input conditionals logical operators types loops functions arrays loading and drawing images colors page flipping buffers translating images and shapes scaling images and shapes rotating images animation collision detection input from the mouse