Hello, I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I’m a Computer Science teacher in the UK and I’m hoping / planning to build a new curriculum for a year 9 group based around Solar 2D.
I’ve been teaching CS for a fair few years, Python, C#, vb.net, databases etc but I’m new to Solar2D and Lua (it looks good though, potentially better as a language for teaching than Python is (he says as he puts on his flak jacket and takes cover).
I’ll probably introduce Lua and Solar2D to students with something like the balloon game that’s in the getting started tutorials for the first couple of lessons.
Then something like an enemy balloon that moves iteratively to start linking the basic programming concepts they’ve learned in Python in years 7 and 8… not really sure about that I’m still thinking about it.
Then there would be a move from programming to Digital Media as students plan their own games / apps and make the assets etc, then develop their games and finally ‘package’ them and that would be about a years worth of lessons.
One issue I can see is going to be support from my excellent IT team. My school is going through a lot of change currently and the IT team might not be able to install the Corona simulator and update VS Code or install a new text editor in good enough time for me to start teaching this in January.
I’m interested in using the Solar2D Playground, at least for the first few lessons but with different assets and different organisation (ie. Lesson1, Lesson2 etc).
I see the source for Playground is on GitHub, is there anything I should be aware of as over Christmas break I hope to host a copy of it on a server of my own?
Anyway, I just wanted to reach out and say hi and say I’m open to any help, suggestions and so forth 