We will continue learning how to use the tool StarLogo.

Reminder: You will have to save any StarLogo projects you create on the local disk and then transfer them over to your acpub account before leaving class. If you don't do this, it is not guaranteed that they will be saved. StarLogo projects will be submitted electronically from your acpub account.

StarLogo Projects

Today you will go through one more tutorial to learn additional things you can do with StarLogo. As you go through the tutorial you should think about a project you would like to create. After you complete the tutorial, you should start work on the following two projects, a traffic project and a project of your choice. Both projects are done with your partner. You must do the traffic project first.

TIMETABLE FOR PROJECTS

Tutorial

Go through the following tutorial. As you go through it, try out some of the explorations. You don't have to do all of them.

Click here for tutorial.

Class Project 1: Traffic (8 pts)

We will redo the traffic problem, this time using StarLogo. You should create a traffic animation and a web page describing the animation. The web page should be called SLtraffic.html and should include at least 3 snapshots and detailed explanations of your project.

Put the following items into your animation called SLtraffic.slogo

1. Put in both of your names as comments

2. Show parts of two roads that meet at an intersection.

3. Show a traffic light that changes from red to green to yellow to red, etc. (must show for two directions). Try to change colors at the same time (as one turns red the other direction turns green)

   The intersection has cars attempting to go through it in 4 directions. One stoplight will control 2 directions and the other stoplight will control the other 2 directions.These "stoplights" can be connected to each other or separate, and you only need to see 1 side of each of them.

4. You should have cars continuously coming in all 4 directions. They should obey the traffic lights (stop on red, move forward on green)

5. Show something (trees, houses, animals, etc....) by the road.

6. You should have buttons and sliders for controling your animation. You can decide what they might be (number of cars, speed of cars, etc.)

7. Have a button to make a car crash (one car that doesn't obey the traffic light!).

8. (1 pt extra credit) Add something additional that is worthy of extra credit to your animation and document it on your web page. Make sure it is clearly marked as extra credit.

Turn in:

• SLtraffic.slogo project file using submit command

• SLtraffic.html web page describing project with at least 3 pictures

• put a link to your project web page from your cps 49s web page

Class Project 2: (8 pts)

Your second project is for you and your partner to choose. This project should be a substantial effort. In addition to creating the starlogo program, you should write a web page that has a description of your project in a similar format to the sample projects that comes with StarLogo. Your web page should be called SLclassproj.html and should include at least 3 snapshots and detailed explanations of your project.

Turn in:

• brief description of what you plan to work on (due end of class feb 15)

• .slogo project file using submit command (remember to put both names in the file as comments)

• SLclassproj.html web page describing project with at least 3 pictures

• put a link to your project web page from your cps 49s web page

 
   submit_cps049s  starclass SLtraffic.slogo yourproject2file.slogo   

 
   ~rodger/bin/submit_cps049s  starclass SLtraffic.slogo yourproject2file.slogo   

 
   ~rodger/bin/submit_cps049s  starclass