Unit 7 - Creative Animation with The Theater Project

Introduction

For this project, you will create an animation using The Theater that portrays a personal interest or solves a problem that you choose. Your program should demonstrate the object-oriented programming and software engineering skills and knowledge you have developed throughout the year.

Requirements

Use your knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms to create an animation using The Theater:

• Use inheritance and polymorphism – Create a superclass that represents shared attributes and behaviors with at least two subclasses that are more specific versions or variations of the superclass.
• Method decomposition – Use overloaded, overridden, and private methods to implement different versions of the same behavior, variations of a superclass behavior, and to improve code organization.
• Use at least two data structures - Use at least two 1D or 2D arrays or ArrayLists to store elements that are manipulated using loops and conditionals.
• Implement one or more algorithms – Implement one or more algorithms that use loops and two-way or multi-selection statements with compound Boolean expressions to analyze the data.
• Create a visualization – Create an animation that portrays a personal interest or solves a problem that you choose using objects, data structures, and methods.
• Document your code – Use comments to explain the purpose of the methods and code segments and note any preconditions and postconditions.

Trello Board

Link the Trello board that you used to plan this project here.

My Trello planning board

UML Diagram

Put and image of your UML Diagram here. Upload the image of your UML Diagram to your repository, then use the Markdown syntax to insert your image here. Make sure your image file name is one word, otherwise it might not properly get display on this README.

Video

Record a short video of your project to display here on your README. You can do this by:

• Screen record your project running on Code.org.
• Upload that recording to YouTube.
• Take a thumbnail for your image.
• Upload the thumbnail image to your repo.
• Use the following markdown code:

Here is the link if the thumbnail doesn't work: https://youtu.be/gcqwAdD9Uow

Project Description

My animation is designed to teach users about the different positions in volleyball, which ties into my personal interest in the sport. A lot of people, especially beginners or spectators, don’t always understand the roles of each position, so I wanted to create something that makes it easier to learn. I based the project on the user story: “As someone new to volleyball, I want to learn about each position so I can better understand the game.” This helped shape the animation to include user input, position descriptions, visuals, and sounds, making the program more informative and engaging.