Ship Movement Complete

Alright so I finished redesigning the ship movement. The up arrow works like an actual thruster would. When pressed, the ship starts moving that way. If the ship changes directions, activating the thruster again, the ship will slowly start moving in that direction. It was quite a challenge getting the ship moving like this.

For everything else I've done so far, I was able to think of the design in my head and implement the code. If it didn't work, I just had to make little changes. But for the ship movement, I felt completely lost. I actually made a text document to write out my ideas and analyze them after I wrote them out. This really helped me see flaws in my design (with the help of the debugger). I kinda felt rushed to start and finish this project, so I didn't do a lot of pre-planning. Now I regret not documenting my past ideas and not planning this out. I think it would have saved me a lot of time.

I also realize my code is very unorganized, so after I get the front-end looking OK, I'm going to fix the organization of the code. I also want to create text docs to explain what each class, function and variable are for.

Here's an updated to do list:

• Have meteors break into smaller pieces, twice
• Recreate meteors once all are destroyed
• Get the "lives" displayed on the screen
• Fix bullet - meteor detection
• If time permits, add high score system
• Create documents to explain code