Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:24:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Jacobson To: 810-088-10-summer@uni.edu Subject: Final exam day for Flash Games... Two parts... Hi Flash students, As you know from today's class, the study guide that was handed out is also available at the class18.html web page in the reviews.html group. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/games/reviews.html http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/games/class18.html http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/games/finalGames2008Guide.txt http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/games/car/carRotatingWheels.html The final class day will be structured as follows: 9:50 a.m. - answer any questions and explain any concepts you are having trouble with or want to be sure about after preparing for the quizzes. I will perhaps review some things I know are especially useful and VIP to review for the quiz, if you do not have any or have enough questions to use up the 15 minutes. Thus, it is in your best interests to be there by 9:50 a.m. ------------------- ------------ 10:05 a.m. or 10:10 a.m. - start the quiz1 final exam portion. Quiz1 or exam, part 1 will be as follows: No cheat sheet allowed. Based on the study guide. You will have about 25 to 30 minutes for quiz #1. Class will begin about 10 minutes after the last student has turned in and finished with quiz #1. I will have the computer lab open in ITT 335 and of course, there are also park benches near the elevator for those who finish quiz one early and want to relax or check their email. ITT 335 computer lab is on the same floor as our classroom and is across the hallway from the main anthropology classroom. You walk right by it to get to the only drinking fountain on the 4th floor of our building. I don't know if class will start again at 10:45 a.m. or so. If you are in the area on this floor, I can come and get you when the last student has finished and we are ready for starting class again. 10:45 a.m. or so, we will have a fun group exercise or presentation of some sort. Pizza will be delivered about 11 a.m. or a little after, so you can eat some pizza before you take final exam, part 2, also known as quiz 2. Quiz 2 - will start at 11:40 a.m. or 11:35 a.m. Final exam, part 2, i.e. quiz two format: You can have and use your cheat sheet which is covered front and back with as much information and whatever information about Flash and ActionScript and squishing, bouncing balls, masks and masking, TIMER and ENTER_FRAME, etc. The cheat sheet is a regular 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. Note: the cheat sheet may be something that actually helps you do better on part 1 of the final exam, on quiz #1, where you do NOT get to use the cheat sheet. Why? By writing out and designing your cheat sheet it helps you to consolidate and review and organize what you have learned from the course and from going through the study guide. PLEASE SEND ME YOUR PIZZA PREFERENCES today or tonight or very early tommorrow morning. Mainly tell me what ingredients are okay and what ingredients you would not want, so I can make sure at least one of the pizzas is acceptable to each and every student. If there are any vegetarian pizza preferences, I need to know that so there is a pizza or half a pizza without any meat on it. Now that I know about CAW - Creston, Ankeny and Waverly, I can make a 10 piece puzzle game from 10 sections of the Iowa map that contain the towns Walcott, Waterloo, Clarksville, Storm Lake, Evansdale, W Des Moines, Boone, Creston, Ankeny and Waverly. Your puzzle game can have how ever many pieces you want and need to have, but this idea I had last night was what most excited me. I will have you drag and drop the map section to the relative location in Iowa compared to the other map sections and cities. I believe Walcott would be southeastern most of all of the above, as I recall Julie and Jeff's wedding reception was in the Walcott Colliseum on August 5th, 1989, although there wedding was closer yet to the Mississippi River over in Davenport or Bettendorf. That was the first place I ever did the hokey pokey, in Julie's hometown at the Walcott Colliseum! :-) And Storm Lake might be the upper right hand or northwestern most of all because it is near Aurelia, Iowa and Cherokee, Iowa where Maranda and Neil had their wedding and reception on the Saturday of the last weekend before spring semester of 2001 began. Maranda took Computer Skills and Concepts in fall of 1998 and helped me to learn some of the WRC weight machines in December of 1999 and after. And Carmen and Keisha used to try to trip me when I walked into the classroom to teach Computers and Decision making in spring of 1989. Keisha was from Cherokee and Carmen was from Ladora. Keisha's first teaching job was in Huntington, Minnesota. Speaking of pizza, I stopped there and visited and went out for pizza with Keisha in May of 1993 while on my way up to the Big Ten Track and Field championships which were held at U of Minnesota that year. Speaking of missing my first home UNI volleyball game in four years and missing my first ever McLeod Center UNI volleyball game on October 25th this fall because of Misty's wedding, Carmen's wedding near Ladora was the first time I ever missed a home U of Iowa field hockey game and that was in the fall of 1993. My first ever field hockey game was on November 3rd, 1990, so I made it to every game in 1991, 1992 and all but one game in 1993 and then didn't miss a home game until the fall of 1998. And speaking of weddings on the last Saturday of the last weekend before a new UNI semester, former UNI swimmer and student Kendra got married on the Saturday just before the 2007/2008 academic year and fall semester began. Where at? Huntington, Minnesota! None of these rambling reflections will be on the final exam! :-) It was an exciting way to start the last week of classes getting email from Minneapolis on Monday that Mia and Monte had their first baby and later that same day from Misty in CR that she is engaged and 10/25 is the big day! Mia, by the way, got the computer applications certification and graduated in 1999 majoring in Graphic Communications and has a great job in her field up in the Twin Cities. Charles Dickens had his Tale of Two Cities and these ramblings began as a puzzling tale of ten cities. Mark