Graphics Town Pages

Graphics Town 2023: Instructions Rubric Hints Checklist Advanced Update 5/1/23: The deadline has been postponed until Friday, May 5th. This deadline is strict. Unlike most workbooks, the instructions are here on the web. This allows us to update them - please check back for updates (we will generally announce updates on Canvas). Your actual work goes into the workbook. Be sure to clone the workbook from github classroom (the link is on Canvas, not on the open web). Read more…

Graphics Town 2023: Instructions Rubric Hints Checklist Advanced Summary: do enough cool stuff and document it, and you’ll get a good grade. The hard part is quantifying “enough” and “cool”. We might say “you’ll know it when you see it.” But instead, we have to try to write something… This page may be updated with clarifications and additional examples. The grading aspects of this assignment are what gets complicated. The assignment itself isn’t that complicated. Read more…

Graphics Town 2023: Instructions Rubric Hints Checklist Advanced This is a list of “advanced things” that you may want to include in your town. See the Graphics Town Rubric 2023 (Advanced Things) for explanations. These are suggestions - if there is something that you want to try, it might fall into the “none of the things below” category (#1), but if you’d like to check, please ask on Piazza. If you have a good idea, we may add it to the list! Read more…

Graphics Town 2023: Instructions Rubric Hints Checklist Advanced This is a terse list of the “requirements” for graphics town. Generally, you need to do all of these things to get a good grade. It may be possible to excel at one thing and do less well at another. See the Graphics Town Rubric 2023 for details. Program runs without fixes Program runs at a reasonable rate User interface still works things stop when the run button is unchecked Appropriate number of things on the highlight list The program is visually disinct from the example No ? Read more…

Graphics Town 2023: Instructions Rubric Hints Checklist Advanced GraphicsTown UI Basics You have been using the Graphics Town framework for the prior workbooks. The changes made for this workbook are small, and are specific to Graphics Town. The documentation for the framework is Framework Documentation, but as always, the code is the main documentation. The main difference for Graphics Town is that we are going to use some features that make it possible for a user to appreciate a town built in it. Read more…