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2. wall o touchdevelop uses a wall to display items o latest item on top, infinite list below ☀ why? simplified / restricted user interface tradeoff between flexibility and usability

3. output o any item can be “posted to the wall” song→post to wall ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/velkhttp://touchdevelop.com/velk o specialized display based on item songs get a play button, image are displayed, GPS locations show up in a map

4. input o user may be asked for text, Boolean, numbers var name := all→ask string(“Enter your name”) var age := all→ask number(“Enter your age”) var ok := all→ask boolean(“Are you ok?”) ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/vxezhttp://touchdevelop.com/vxez o user may pick a time, date var date := all→pick date(“Enter your birthdate”) ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/ryorhttp://touchdevelop.com/ryor

5. appearance o set background color o set background image o set foreground color (text color) ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/eifqhttp://touchdevelop.com/eifq o display search icon ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/bjfthttp://touchdevelop.com/bjft

6. textbox o a textbox allows to update text on the wall o settings font size, foreground color (text color), background color, border color, icon ☁ http://touchdevelop.com/wawrhttp://touchdevelop.com/wawr

7. exercises ►display a random picture select a random picture and post it to the wall ►a temperature converter asks the user for a degree in Celsius and converts it to Fahrenheit

8. exercises (extra) ►accelerometer viewer displays the live acceleration value in a textbox in an infinite while loop, update the text ►accelerometer color viewer map the acceleration to a color set the wall background to that color

9. homework ►a guessing game the user needs to guess something (entered as text/number/time/date) when the guess is correct, the screen goes green and a success message is displayed; otherwise the screen goes blue ☀ with a failure message (optional) use gradient between green/blue to display progress to the user ☀ 10% of Caucasian males are color blind, i.e. green and red look brown.