Description

Use the arrow keys to move a snake around the board to eat apples. Try to eat as many apples as possible. It will get more difficult the longer you play, with the snake growing in size for each apple eaten.

Rainbow Snake example output

Topics

• API usage
• Arrays
• Loops
• Conditionals
• ArrayLists
• Mod

Instructional materials

BRIDGES instructors: To access teacher files or solution files, use the Bridges_Users Shared Drive. If you do not already have access, please contact iuse-bridges-group@uncc.edu.

Student files

Java

• Rainbow Snake Student Worksheet
• SnakeGame.java

Python

• Snake Student Worksheet
• snake_game.py

Teacher files

Java

• Rainbow Snake Teacher Walkthrough
• SnakeGame.java

Python

• snake_game.py

Documentation

• NonBlockingGame [Java] [Python]
• GameBase [Java] [Python]
• NamedColor [Java] [Python]
• NamedSymbol [Java] [Python]