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3D Game Programming for Kids, Sec ond Edition

About the Pragmatic Bookshelf Table of Contents Early praise for 3D Game Programming for Kids, Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction

How I Learned to Program (and Why That Matters to You) How YOU Can Learn to Program Getting Help What You Need for This Book What Is JavaScript? What’s New in the Second Edition? What This Book Is Not Let’s Get Started! Programming with the 3DE Code Editor Making Shapes with JavaScript Creating Spheres Making Boxes with the Cube Shape Using Cylinders for All Kinds of Shapes Building Flat Surfaces with Planes Rendering Donuts (Not the Kind You Eat) with Torus Animating the Shapes The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Debugging in 3DE: The Red X Debugging in 3DE: The Yellow Triangle Opening and Closing the JavaScript Console Debugging in the Console Common 3D Programming Errors Recovering When 3DE Is Broken What’s Next Getting Started Smooth Chunkiness Making a Whole from Parts Breaking It Down Adding Feet for Walking Challenge: Make the Avatar Your Own Doing Cartwheels The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Building Interactive Systems with Keyboard Eve nts Converting Keyboard Events into Avatar Movemen t Challenge: Start/Stop Animation Building a Forest with Functions Moving the Camera with the Avatar The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Basic Functions Functions that Return Values Using Functions Breaking Functions Bonus #1: Random Colors Bonus #2: Flight Controls The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Moving a Hand Swinging Hands and Feet Together Walking When Moving The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Describing Things in JavaScript Numbers, Words, and Other Things in JavaScript Control Structures What’s Next Getting Started Facing the Proper Direction Breaking It Down Animating the Spin The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started A Quick Introduction to HTML Setting the Scene Using Cameras to Capture the Scene Using a Renderer to Project What the Camera S ees Exploring Different Cameras What’s Next Getting Started Rays and Intersections The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Starting a Scoreboard at Zero Giving Trees a Little Wiggle Jumping for Points Making Our Games Even Better The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Emitting Light Ambient Light Point Light Shadows Spotlights and Sunlight Texture Further Exploration The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started The Sun at the Center Game and Simulation Logic Local Coordinates Multi-Camera Action! Bonus #1: Stars Bonus #2: Flying Controls Understanding the Phases Not Perfect, But Still a Great Simulation The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Outline the Game Adding Ground for the Game Build a Simple Avatar Add Scoring Gameplay Improvements The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Outline the Game Bonus #1: Add a Background Bonus #2: Make Fire! Challenge The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Simple Objects Properties and Methods Copying Objects Constructing New Objects The Worst Thing in JavaScript: Losing this Challenge The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started The Launcher Scoreboard Baskets and Goals Wind! The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Two Launchers Two Scoreboards Teaching Baskets to Update the Correct Scoreb oard Sharing a Keyboard A Complete Reset The Code So Far What’s Next Getting Started Pushing and Pulling Shapes Rough Terrain Digging a River Scoreboard Build a Raft for Racing Resetting the Game Keyboard Controls The Finish Line Bonus: Keeping Score The Code So Far What’s Next The Mighty, Mighty Browser Free Websites Putting Your Code on Another Site The Code So Far What’s Next

Appendix 1: Project Code

Code: Creating Simple Shapes Code: Playing with the Console and Finding What’s Broken Code: Making an Avatar Code: Moving Avatars Code: Functions: Use and Use Ag ain Code: Moving Hands a nd Feet Code: A Closer Look at JavaScript Fundamentals Code: Turning Our Avatar Code: What’s All That Other Code? Code: Collisions Code: Fruit Hunt Code: Working with L ights and Materials Code: Phases of the Moon Code: The Purple Fru it Monster Game Code: Tilt-a-Board Code: Learning about J avaScript Objects Code: Ready, Steady, Launch Code: Two-Player Ready, Steady , Launch Code: River Rafter Code: Getting Code on the Web

Appendix 2: JavaScript Code Collections Used in This Book

Three.js Physijs Controls Noise Scoreboard.js Shader Particle Engine Sounds.js Tween.js

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