{"id":459,"date":"2010-05-27T21:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:14:44","slug":"pac-man-30th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/pac-man-30th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man 30th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/pacman\/\">Google Pac-Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-20005958-52.html\">People Playing Google Pac-Man Wastes 4.8 Million Hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 30th anniversary of Pac-Man has come and gone.\u00a0 What a cool game!<br \/>\nI remember playing Pac-Man on 25 cent arcade machines when I was a kid.<br \/>\nWe had a local arcade \/ pizza house that all sorts of video games.<br \/>\nWe had Space Invaders, Frogger, Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Phoenix, and Asteroids just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Due to my fond feelings about arcade games and my perception that my students like them as well, I have my students complete several of these games in my classes.<br \/>\nI have a GridWorld Snake Project that can easily become PacMan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.apluscompsci.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"GridWorld Snake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/snake_half.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also have Space Invaders and Pong projects using Frames and Java Graphics.<br \/>\nI ported over my Pong project over to Scratch and use that in our intro CS class.<br \/>\nWe also created Pac-Man in XNA \/ C# as an end of year project.\u00a0 The students had to research grid-based gaming and the A* algorithm.\u00a0 The project was fun.<br \/>\nMy students love building interactive projects and really enjoying playing what they create as well as playing what others in class create.<br \/>\nIt is very educational for the students to design and build a game and then explain that creative process to other students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Pac-Man People Playing Google Pac-Man Wastes 4.8 Million Hours The 30th anniversary of Pac-Man has come and gone.\u00a0 What a cool game! I remember playing Pac-Man on 25 cent arcade machines when I was a kid. We had a local arcade \/ pizza house that all sorts of video games. We had Space Invaders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,20,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}