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New video: Initialising the world
A new tutorial video is available on the video page. It explains how to set up your world with all the initial objects you want in it at the start.
BlueJ / Greenfoot Day 2009
The third BlueJ / Greenfoot Day will be held on 4 March 2009, in conjunction with SIGCSE 2009. The "day" is actually a half-day event on the afternoon of that day.
The BlueJ/Greenfoot Day is a half-day mini-conference for current and potential BlueJ and/or Greenfoot users. All users - experienced and beginners - should find interesting content at this event.
Read more at:
BlueJ / Greenfoot Day 2009
New Greenfoot version: 1.4.6
Greenfoot 1.4.6 has now been released. This release provides a number of bug fixes and adds translations of the interface into French, Italian and Greek. Thanks to the translators for their contributions!
New video: Displaying text
A new tutorial vieo is available on the tutorial video page, named Showing text. This video gives an introduction to displaying text as part of a Greenfoot scenario.
CodePoint 2008 - The 1st Greenfoot Coding Contest
CodePoint 2008 - the first annual Greenfoot coding contest - is about to start. In this competition, particiants can win great prizes by submitting innovative, funny, quirky, or otherwise interesting scenarios to the Greenfoot Gallery. Read more about CodePoint 2008.
Translaters wanted
We are starting to look into translating the Greenfoot interface and its documentation into other languages. Can you help? If you speak a language other than English, and would like to donate a litte time, please have a look at our Translation Page.
New: The Greenfoot Gallery
We are very please to announce the official opening of the Greenfoot Gallery. Scenarios can be exported directly from Greenfoot to the Gallery, where the rest of the world can then see them, learn from them, and comment.
A short intro to Greenfoot programming
We have added a Quick Intro to Greenfoot Programming to our documentation. This is intended for people who already have a little experience with programming and want to get to know some of the basics of Greenfoot quickly.
Greenfoot 1.4.5
This new version of Greenfoot contains numerous bugfixes and improvements. The most significant change is the new export dialogue that lets you publish scenarios to the beta version of the Greenfoot Gallery site. Complete list of new features. Download.
WaveLab Scenario
Try out a simple physics simulation with the WaveLab. This example shows how easy it is to simulate some scientific content in Greenfoot. See an online demo, or download the scenario.
Greenfoot and "Change Blindness"
Cay Horstmann describes using Greenfoot for an interesting psychological experiment: Investigating the phenomenon of "Change Blindness". As he writes: ... it shows that Greenfoot can do a lot more than have crabs eat sandworms :-)
Greenfoot Scenario, labs and worksheets
Qusay H. Mahmoud from the University of Guelph has published a Greenfoot scenario he uses for his teaching: Going to the Moon. His web page contains very detailed information, including an introduction, PowerPoint slides, labs and - of course - source code. Contact him for details.
New scenario available: Net
Here is a little new scenario called "net" to give you an idea how to simulate some physics. Source code is available.
PCPro article with Greenfoot walkthrough
British Computing magazine PC Pro has recently published an article discussing the lack of programming in secondary schools. The third page of that article includes an easy, short walkthrough to developing a simple game with Greenfoot. Have a look!
New tutorial video: Using mouse input
A new tutorial video is available that demonstrates how to write a scenario that reacts to mouse events (such as mouse clicks or mouse movement). Click the link to view, or right-click to download. More videos are on the tutorial video page.
Greenfoot and Media Computation
Cay Horstmann has started bringing examples from the "media computation" approach, pioneered by Mark Guzdial, to Greenfoot. This looks like a very interesting approach, slightly different in character from many of the game-like approaches we have seen before, so have a look at his description.
Greenfoot event at SIGCSE 2008
At the SIGCSE 2008 conference, we will hold a free half-day event discussing Greenfoot and BlueJ. All interested people are very welcome. Details are here.
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