This winter break, I focused on more math and science, but the most important thing I did this winter break was coding! I made a fun little cube game where you have to dodge incoming squares (like a driving game), I made a bird simulation, a maze generation simulation, and a neural network system! All is explained down below. But probably the most important part of this winter break is that I finally got to play Minecraft! It was really enjoyable.
I took it easy on the math and science because it was winter break after all, so I basically did what I wanted with that. That was pretty fun because I got to learn what I want. The coding was fun because I started making more browser-based games with HTML and JavaScript. I learned JavaScript in the past but I never really used it that much, so it was nice to go back and relearn a new coding language. To make drawing things on the screen (in JavaScript) a LOT easier, I used the P5.js library, which is a much more intuitive way of programming. For example, if you want to draw a circle, all you have to do is [ellipse(x, y, width, height)]. With this, I made a lot of cool things, listed above.
I also got into Unity! I did start programming in Unity last year, but I never really got fluent in C# (which is the programming language that Unity uses), like I got fluent in JS or HTML or Scratch. So I started learning it again, and following a tutorial (by Brackeys, which is a great YouTube channel for unity tutorials), I made the car driving/crashing game.
Probably the MOST important part of the break was that I was able to play Minecraft for the first time on my Mac! It was really fun and exciting, as I never really got to play before. I even joined a multiplayer server that my friend made, where I can play with my friends on a server! I got Minecraft by studying well and not getting distracted for three months, which I’m quite proud of.
We also went snowshoeing on Grouse and Cypress! Both of those were fun because I enjoy walking in the snow. I also liked it because we brought instant noodles for Grouse, and we went to the lodge on Cypress, and we got to eat warm food! It was really fun.
Boids are basically a simulation of birds and the flocking simulation. The birds, if put close together, will simulate a flock of birds! You can also look that up online, lol!
(all of these JS projects can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Bo6ZNymc_QBokw3obUXPvedovNkMhaFO?usp=sharing)
To open, all you have to do is:
1. download the folder
2. open the folder on your computer
3. open a browser
4. Inside the folder, look for the index.html file. if there isn’t one, look for any file that has the .html behind it.
5. drag the .html file into the browser
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