Week-12-notes.md

Week 12 - Intro to PixiJS

Overview

This week we will be getting ready for Project 3: Sprite-based Game by looking at PixiJS, which is a high performance 2D rendering library that can be used to create games and interactive experiences in a web browser. We will also look at ES6 classes, which are another way to make object instances in JavaScript.

Topics

• Questions on the Portfolio "Mini Project"?
• PixiJS
  • setting up a PixiJS application
  • drawing Shapes
  • drawing Images
  • buttons and Events
  • animating sprites
• ES 6 Classes
  • the class, constructor, extends, and new keywords
  • class inheritance
  • subclassing PixiJS classes

Assignments

The required readings and assignments for this week are here (see myCourses dropboxes for the due dates):

• About this PixiJS Tutorial Series
• 1 - Intro to PixiJS
• 2 - ES6 Classes & PixiJS Animation

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