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| Touch Development is an app. In Touch development you have a blank app template where you create a script. This can consist of one or more pages. An app is different than a game in that it is created from a template. Is made up of one or more pages and can be navigated. There are libraries that make the user interaction with the text and buttons easy. In general, an app is a computer program often designed for a particular purpose and often designed for mobile devices. |
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| A set of repeated steps used to solve a problem. The set of steps for doing long division of a number is an algorithm. Doesn’t really change, just repeats but can have certain conditions that will change it. |
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| Set of instructions (algorithms) that a computer can follow. Apps and games are examples and you will be creating. In TD, a computer program is called the script. |
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| A container (block, line) for data. Every variable has a name that is used to reference the data that lies within it. Every variable also has a variable type. |
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| The type of data that a variable can contain. Examples of variable types are number, string, and sprite. In TD the variable type for a variable has been predetermined when the variable in initialized. Once the variable type for variable has been determined, the variable can only contain data of the same type |
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| The part of this program where a variable can be read. For example, a variable declared in one function is said to be a local variable, and cannot be read from other functions. However; variables can be declared with a global scope, making them readable in all functions of a program |
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| A visual frame by frame plan for a program or project. A storyboard often contains sketches and descriptions that tell the story of a game or project…. Sometimes called a workspace. |
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| Something that happens outside of the TD program like tap screen, or left click muse to cause the program to run. Event handlers as such “hug” the building blocks of code that make up the steps of what the item is going to do when clicked so to speak. |
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| a fundamental building block for writing your script in TD. Designed to hold data and allow for manipulation of the data through functions and properties. |
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| a Sequence of alphanumeric characters and or symbols, in a computer. |
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| In Touch Development we are writing code to a script- this is the computer program we are using through the Platform TD (which host the script) |
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| A self-contained set of instructions (algorithms) for performing a specific task within a program. |
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| When you add style to the language you are coding- for example; in TD you have a star- that is your object- the properties of the star may be gold color and glowing. |
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an object in TD that is usually a character in the game. They have properties and functions that controls the way they look and have the behave.
Assign- you have to set values of variables. The symbol for assign in TD is :=, the following is a sample of code that is assigned a value of 5 to the variable. X: x := 5 |
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