2012_05_12_MEETING

MAY 12TH 2012 COMPUTER CLUB JCCC MEETING

We're meeting Saturday, May 12th at 9am-11am at Johnson County Community College. For 2012 we will stick to 1st saturdays of the month until further notice, with the exception of this meeting in May which has been moved to the second saturday of May due to travel conflicts. Please RSVP to kccomputerclub@gmail.com so we can get an idea of how many students / parents / educators are attending.

For 2012, that makes the remaining meeting dates and times:

Saturday, May 12th, 9am-11am (NOTE THIS IS THE SECOND SATURDAY, DUE TO TRAVEL CONFLICTS) Saturday, June 2nd, 9am-11am Saturday, July 7th, 9am-11am Saturday, August 4th, 9am-11am Saturday, September 1st, 9am-11am Saturday, October 6th, 9am-11am Saturday, November 3rd, 9am-11am Saturday, December 1st, 9am-11am

You might want to look through our previous Java Summer Workshop ( [] ) to see if anything there looks interesting, especially the Alice movie submissions and so forth, anything you'd like to cover in a future meeting would be great input from you.

AGENDA FOR 5/12 JCCC COMPUTER CLUB 9AM-11AM MEETING:

1) VIDEO: Java Game Demonstration: Minecraft ( [] ) 2) DEMOS: a) Kinect camera and Java using Greenfoot b) picoboard and Java using Greenfoot 2) PROJECT: using synchronous and asynchronous messaging in games 3) TOOL: EXTENDING SCRATCH BY BUILDING YOUR OWN BLOCKS []

Location: Johnson County Community College, Regnier Center 380 (RC380)

Maps to the location: http://www.jccc.edu/maps/index.html - parking is free

Thanks! If you know anyone interested in computer club, please pass this on to them and remind them that they'll need a memory stick to save their projects on. You can download Scratch at [] and Greenfoot at [].

Thanks.

Best regards,

-- DanG Daniel Green Kansas City Computer Club