Microsoft Visual was a new program for me at this point.  I did not enjoy this assignment.  However, now that I am over my frustration, I realize Professor Rueda’s intention.  He wants us to be frustrated!  No, seriously.  Through our frustration, we actually learn how to solve the problems we run into.  I don’t necessarily agree with his methods, but they might be effective… maybe.

Anyways, I tried.  I tried at least 9 times.  I spent literally all weekend from the first bus to school until the 8 or 10pm bus trying to find a game that would run.  However, it wasn’t until Sunday that I was able to get one to work – and it was the example shown in class…  I believe I still met the requirements, but it for sure wasn’t impressive.  I attempted to edit it, but it wasn’t in any form I was familiar with (it didn’t have the form window that shows the what the window will look like when it runs).  I was able to edit the colors slightly. Here are the differences in the code and the results they produced:

The above images show the original code and color scheme

The above images show the new code and color scheme

Unfortunately, this was all I was able to figure out how to change.  Like Thomas Edison said, I didn’t only get one solution for making a game (or light bulb in his case), but I discovered 1000 ways not to make one…. or something like that!  Stay positive!  Hopefully, I’ll be able to take away a little more from the next assignment!