1. Microsoft® Small Basic Responding to Events Estimated time to complete this lesson: 1 hour

2. Responding to Events In this lesson, you will learn about: Creating interactive games in Small Basic that respond to events.

3. Fun with Shapes And you also know that you can use these shapes, controls, and events collectively to create interactive games in Small Basic. Let’s see how… So far, you have learned to insert and animate various shapes in your Small Basic programs. You have also learned to use controls and keyboard and mouse events to include interactivity in your Small Basic program.

4. Make the Turtle Draw – The Game In this simple game, you tell the Turtle to draw unique shapes in the graphics window by defining the number of sides. Notice how you use the Turtle object to draw shapes and how you use mouse and keyboard events to choose the color and the number of sides. The game demonstrates how the user can make the Turtle draw colorful, unique shapes by specifying a color and the number of sides.

6. Next, you specify the number of sides, so you can define what the Turtle should draw.

8. Bounce the Ball – The Game Let’s move to a complex game now. In this game, you keep a ball above the ground by using the mouse to click the ball to keep it afloat. Notice how we use mouse events to keep the ball from touching the ground. The ball responds to mouse clicks and stays afloat. The objective of the game is to keep the ball afloat as long as possible.

10. You click the ball to make it bounce up in the air.

11. You must keep the ball from touching the ground. To do so, keep clicking the ball.

13. Let’s Summarize… Congratulations! Now you know how to: Create interactive games in Small Basic that respond to events.

15. Create a series of statements to be displayed on the screen.

16. For any statement, the user will click True or False.

17. The user scores points by guessing correctly.