{"id":281,"date":"2013-05-01T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/?p=281"},"modified":"2013-05-01T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:18:26","slug":"its-a-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2013\/05\/01\/its-a-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a snake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today’s task was create a game like Snake. The snake would draw a line as it moved\u00a0around\u00a0the screen. Objects to be collected would appear at random places. If the snake touched it’s tail it would lose a life.<\/p>\n

We broke down this task as a class into the following\u00a0manageable\u00a0pieces.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Move the snake (like the etch-a-sketch program)<\/li>\n
  2. Detect if you touch its tail (Maze program)<\/li>\n
  3. Display objects and keep score (Maze program)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are lots of\u00a0solutions, so give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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