CP L4 Vocabulary

Variables

• A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

• the process of making things move around a page, scene or app

• the interface used in code.org to code animations for your scene

Function

• A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

• the process of making things move around a page, scene or app

• the interface used in code.org to code animations for your scene

Animations

• A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

• the process of making things move around a page, scene or app

• the interface used in code.org to code animations for your scene

Animation Tab

• A placeholder for a piece of information that can change.

• A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

• the process of making things move around a page, scene or app

• the interface used in code.org to code animations for your scene

Sprite

• Trying again and again, even when something is very hard

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• the speed at which the computer graphic may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as single entity

• a computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity

Sprite Velocity

• Trying again and again, even when something is very hard

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• the speed at which the computer graphic may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as single entity

• a computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity

Parameters

• Trying again and again, even when something is very hard

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• the speed at which the computer graphic may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as single entity

• a computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity

Persistence

• Trying again and again, even when something is very hard

• An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need.

• The speed at which the computer graphic may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as single entity

• A computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity

Pixel

• A lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images

• The process of running your code continuously, so that the same things are repeated again and again

• Typically ran after all other code in your program. This code will cause Game Lab to run the animation at 30 frames per second

• To use dot notation, write the name of the object, followed by a dot (.), followed by the name of the property.

• Short for "picture element", the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot that contains a single point of color of a larger image.

Dot Notation

• a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images

• the process of running your code continuously, so that the same things are repeated again and again

• Typically ran after all other code in your program. This code will cause Game Lab to run the animation at 30 frames per second

• To use dot notation, write the name of the object, followed by a dot (.), followed by the name of the property.

• Short for "picture element", the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot that contains a single point of color of a larger image.