Congratulations on programming
your first platform game.
You're no longer just someone who plays video games,
but someone that can create them.
The computer science concepts you used
to make this program,
are some of the most important concepts
in video game creation.
Events and if statements.
However these concepts aren't just important
relative to video games,
but to nearly everything you can do
with computer science.
When you take computer science class
in high school or college,
you'll see these familiar concepts that you're using
everyday again and again.
Any future classes will teach you more about
creating with the events,
variables and is statements that you're using
in the CS First Club.
Computer scientists aren't the only one to create
using these concepts.
For example artists use computer science skills
like events and if statements to create art.
There is an entire genre of art called Interactive Art
that includes pieces that actively move
and involve the user.
Here's an example of an interactive art installation.
A dance floor that reacts to touch events.
When the user steps on this dance floor
it creates a spiral pattern.
The artist is responsible for programming
how the floor responds to touch events.
Here's the same dance floor,
except now the floor is a different color
and behaves differently.
The floor looks different because the artist
changed it's code.
Here's another example of Interactive Art.
This is the wooden mirror.
It is made up of more than 800 wooden pieces
that reflect light in different ways
forming a mirror image of the user.
The wooden mirror works by using if statements
to control the wood pieces.
If an area of the picture is dark,
then tilt the wood piece in that area down.
If an area of the piece is light,
then tilt that wood piece up.
These interactive art pieces would not be possible
without computer science.
Knowing a little computer science,
like you are learning in this club,
can empower you to be more creative
in whatever field interests you.
Next session,
we'll explore randomness using a dodgeball game.
Until then have fun creating and coding.
See you next time.