- For this assignment/contest, you'll be
exercising your creativity/imagination as well as your programming
skills.
- You will create an "entity" (human,
creature, plant, zombie, teacher) and making it move.
Nothing obscene or
political or demeaning or designed to get students/parents upset.
- It should move in a way that tries to
be as realistic as possible (that's the way the entity would move on
its own).
- Your model should have only one or two
buttons: Setup or (Setup and Go), sliders and other widgets are
allowed.
If you choose just having the Setup button, then when the user
presses it, it'll create the turtles, and move them one or two
locomotion steps and then stop (that's it).
If you choose having the Go button as well, then your Setup button
will create everything, and your Go button will animate it forever.
- Before uploading your model to the
homework server...
... decide whether you'd like to enter the
class competition, and write your decision into Comments-to-Teacher.
If you don't write a comment, I'll assume that you do not want to
enter into the competition.
- All those who enter the competition
will have their work available to be seen by the other students.
- This is an assignment, not just a
homework, and is worth 15 points, thrice the amount that previous
graded homeworks counted (5).
- The competition prizes will be: A)
pride in your work, B) admiration of your peers and C) extra credit
points (as yet unspecified).
- Judging: If more than half of the
class chooses to enter the competition, then I will let y'all judge
it for prizes (you'll send in your first and second prize candidates
later). If less than or equal to half, then I will judge it.
- Nevertheless, it will be graded.
- Personal note: I've created many a Netlogo
model because: it answered a question I couldn't answer easily
another way, or I wanted to do something visually interesting, or
just because it was fun. And so I hope you have fun with this
as well.
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