Creating Animations

This week, I feel I have learned a more practical application for all of the functions and definitions I have learned in DrRacket thus far.  Producing static values is interesting, but flipping an image of a bunny to produce its mirror image isn’t going to impress too many people, or get you very far in life.  Creating animations is a step up from static values and, with a bit more knowledge, could produce more real world applications, such as creating an add that appears on the side of a website.  Animations are much more interesting, difficult to produce, and a lot more impressive (especially if you can tell your friends you can make a clock on the computer).

I found this week’s tutorial exercised a little more challenging this week, because creating animations is more difficult.  In particular, I found getting the big-bang function to produce exactly what you want the most difficult.  There are more variables when creating animations, you define more functions, and therefore it is easier to make a mistake.  I agree with s2d.greentea (http://c3daniisblog.blogspot.ca), creating animations can be overwhelming and separating all the commands into components makes it much easier to produce an animation that works and doesn’t have any errors in it.