2012_04_07_MEETING

APRIL 7TH 2012 COMPUTER CLUB JCCC MEETING

We're meeting Saturday, April 7th at 9am-11am at Johnson County Community College. For 2012 we will stick to 1st saturdays of the month until further notice. 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, April 7th, 9am-11am 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 4/7 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, <>

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