What you'll learn :

• Display, position, and move filled shapes for retro and prototype gameplay
• Move a ball around your game space such that it bounces off boundaries
• Handle real-time mouse input
• Detect and respond to simple collisions
• Program very basic artificial intelligence
• Keep and display score during play
• Understand the subtle, key difference between a classic game in this style which is fun to play versus one that isn't
• Define and code a win condition and end state for your game

Requirements

• Very early on students will need to show file extensions in their operating system (explained briefly in the video)
• If a plain text editor is available that has programming features like line numbers and auto-indent (ex. Notepad++ on PC, TextWrangler on Mac) that may be handy but is not necessary, as a generic text editor like Notepad or TextEdit will work fine for a program of this size