January 21, 2012 in Assignments, Education, SMASHCast, Social Change by Juan Hernandez

Xavier is a senior in high school and hopes to make SMASH proud when he goes on to college this year.

January 14, 2012 in Featured by Simon

Welcome to the Smashcast Fall 2011 Review!

We just finished our first semester under a completely new class structure and curriculum featuring more class sessions, more projects, more technology, and more students than ever before!  Please read on as we highlight our students’ achievements, experiences, and statistics over the past four months.

December 21, 2011 in Technology by Cindy

Cameras are basically on all phones these days, even with video recording capabilities. But waiting for cameras to focus on certain points of the scene can take a couple seconds — enough for the scene to change. The new Lytro Light Field Camera could capture all the memorable moments a conventional camera may miss.

December 18, 2011 in Flash Programming, SMASHCast, Technology by Haile Shavers

Using ActionScript takes a very patient person but in the end it’s rewarding…..

in Assignments, Technology by Jose Martinez

Today in Smashcast we began looking at Adobe Flash and programming. I already had previous experience with C++ programming which is similar to how Action Script 2.0 works. Above is a little snippet of the code that went into making this game possible.

in Assignments, Technology by Leilani R.

Today, Simon helped us create our very first (and totally functional) Flash game.  It may seem that creating a Flash game is simple, but it couldn’t be more opposite.  Creating a Flash game requires frustrating meticulousness, scanning lines of code for errors that could keep your program from running properly.  Without adequate patience, writing code for your Flash game can be potentially frustrating.  Luckily, Simon was able to guide us, with minimum meltdowns, to the successful creation of our very own Flash game. Below are screenshots of my Flash game and program code.

in Technology, Uncategorized by Christopher Morgan

Today, Simon helped us in creating our own flash game. It was a very difficult and complex process due to the coding but it was very interesting here is the first portion of the flash game I made. The objective is to reach the gold-ish yellow square without touching any of the other objects.