school lessons

  • 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