Rocket Landing Simulator

Gate Check #3 - Player Controls
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Part 1 (Overview) - Part 2 (Problem Description) - Part 3 (Rocket Controls) - Part 4 (Collision Check) - Part 5 (Metric Tracking) - Part 6 (Crash/Landing Detection)

What Are We Doing THIS Time?!?

This gate check has a lot of small tasks. None of them are particularly difficult, but they require us to jump around and modify several functions at the same time.

In this chapter, we show you how to do the following:

• Control the thrusters using the arrow keys
• Determine if the simulation is over
• Analyze the outcome of the simulation (once it is over)
• Track and display performance metrics (e.g., time elapsed, fuel consumed, num crashes/landings, score, etc.)

Let's tackle each of these problems in order.

Proceed to the next section.