Hi! I'm Kathleen Kennedy and I'm the producer of Star Wars The Force awakens.
Today you'll be working with one of our stars, BBA. BBA is a spherical droid
Everything he does in every movement he makes is controlled by computer software.
Computer science impacts every industry from marketing to health care to film.
In fact, hundreds of computer engineers work together to make a film like The Force Awakens."
Hi, I'm Rachel Rose, I'm senior R&D engineer at ILM and I lead the
animation and creature development team. In The Force Awakens I'm responsible
for helping me artist develop rigs which are the parts of the character that move
that allowed the character to look very believable in a galaxy far far away.
the next hour we're gonna build our own star will teach you the basic concepts
of programming usually programming is all texts but we're going to use blocks
here so that we can drag and drop to rate the programs under the hood you're
still creating code after to try the basics with blocks Java Script one of
the most popular programming languages on the web
start off we're going to work with the program BBA to walk to collect all of
scrap parts your screen is split into three parts on the left a Star Wars game
space where code will run the instructions for each level are written
below the games this middle area is the tool box and each of these boxes a
command that BBA can understand the white space on the right is called the
workspace and this is where we're going to build our program if I drag the move
left walk to our workspace and press run what happens maybe eight mins left one
block on the grid and what if I want you to do something after the move left walk
I can add another block her program I'm going to choose the move lock and I'll
Drive get underneath my move left until the highlight of peers and then I'll
drop it and the two blocks will snap together
when i press run again he be able to put on the command center stacked from top
to bottom on our workspace if you ever want to block just remove it from the
stack and drag it back into the tool box after you hit run you can always hit the
reset button to get back to start now let's get rolling