Name: (Cornwall) - Simulating Lots of Things with Objects and Classes
Start: 2019-11-21T18:00:00Z
End: 2019-11-21T19:30:00Z
Location: Royal Cornwall Museum

In this session we continue our journey learning to code creatively with Javascript and p5js.

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Sometimes we want to model or simulate many "things" of a similar kind. For example, we might want to model the movement of 400 ants around a surface, or 50 bouncing balls in a container.

We don't want to write code for each one of these many objects separately, that would be very laborious. A better approach is to describe a blueprint for the "things" and use that blueprint to create many many "things" in a very elegant way.

This means we'll be learning about Objects and Classes - an important concept in many programming languages.

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In this step-by-step tutorial we'll start small and grow our code to implement a simple simulation of bouncing balls that move realistically under gravity.

Bring your laptop or follow along as we:

Code:
* animate a single ball
* apply the rules of gravity to the ball
* bounce the ball off edges and the ground

Theory:
* introduce the idea of objects and classes

Code:
* re-implement our ball as a class and create an object
* show how we can easily have 10, even 100, balls using the same "blueprint"

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This session is suitable for anyone who is a beginner in coding, and has perhaps started using javascript, or has followed our structured creative coding course: https://sites.google.com/view/creative-coding-for-kids

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This is a hands-on tutorial so please bring a fully-charged laptop with working wifi.

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The session starts at 6.00pm and you can arrive a few minutes before this. Car parking is free in the evening in some of the local council car parks including Garras Wharf car park.

Tariq Rashid

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In this session we continue our journey learning to code creatively with Javascript and p5js.

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