Graphics Town Pages

This is a list of pages related to the graphics town assignment (Workbook 12). Unlike other workbooks, a lot of the documentation is on the web.

Beware: while there are links to previous year’s assignments, this years is different. Last year’s documentation may be useful - but this year is different. Make sure you are reading the correct pages!

Graphics Town Advanced Things 2021

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Graphics Town 2021: Instructions Rubric Hints Advanced This is a list of “advanced things” that you can do to earn points in graphics town. See the Graphics Town Rubric 2021 (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, feel free to ask on Piazza. Read more…

Graphics Town Rubric 2021

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Graphics Town 2021: Instructions Rubric Hints 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 Hints 2021

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Graphics Town 2021: Instructions Rubric Hints 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 code documentation, but as always, the code is the main documentation. The main difference for GraphicsTown 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…

Graphics Town Instructions (Start Here)

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Graphics Town 2021: Instructions Rubric Hints Advanced Unlike most workbooks, the instructions are here on the web. 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). Short version: Make a “town” in the world on the grtown.html page in the workbook. Get points for making things. If it’s cool, you’ll get a good grade. Read more…