{"id":467,"date":"2012-01-10T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mik\/?p=467"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:45:55","slug":"joc-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/01\/10\/joc-6\/","title":{"rendered":"JoC #6: Adding random behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 The solution of every problem is another problem.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 Goethe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Setting off on our path to create a little computer game, today we look into random behaviour. Random events are, of course, very important for games. If everything were entirely predictable, many games would be boring.<\/p>\n<p>So, sit back and watch to see how we get Trick the Turtle to stagger around randomly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Joy of Code #6: Random behaviour\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xKH34gMxZ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/mov\/JOC-6.mov\">Download video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now do it yourself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concepts discussed<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>if statement, random numbers, Greenfoot API documentation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The solution of every problem is another problem. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 Goethe Setting off on our path to create a little computer game, today we look into random behaviour. Random events are, of course, very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/01\/10\/joc-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[57,89],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenfoot-software-tools","category-joy-of-code","tag-if-statement","tag-random-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}