Find below some basic first steps to get along with Cospace:
1. Understanding CoSpace – these videos give a summary of the aims of CoSpace. Don’t worry too much about taking this all in for now – just use them to get an idea of how the CoSpace competition works!
2. Getting Started with Cospace – these activities take you step-by-step through creating a program from scratch. There are videos that accompany each step. By the end of this you will have developed a simple program for World 1 and will be able to pick up objects, avoid traps, deposit and teleport!
- Getting starded these are for the primary field. Start with the primary field even if you are a secondary team.
These videos will guide you through that:
- 1 page summary 1 side of A4 which has a summary of how to save, build, run and load and a summary of the rules. Print off and have to hand!
3. Improving your program – activities to improve your program, with videos.
4. The next step: C#
- C# Exercises -Activities for getting started using C#. For these you will need the compiler (download from right below) and a text editor (Atom is recommended, see link below)
- Download the file converter. This is zipped, you will need to download and then unzip.
- Download a Text Editor. Atom is recommended. Download and run the windows installer.
- Hints and tips on writing your program in C#
- C# worked solutions – this contains fully commented working program for World 1 and World 2 showing how the program should be implemented.
- Game 0 Function Solution – a solution of upto ~Task 8 showing how the the Game0 function should look