AstroVolley Courseware

AstroVolley is free courseware authored by MathWorks® to help teach students the basics of plotting and app building with MATLAB®. During this course students will create their own astrodynamics game where navigators attempt to deliver payloads between star cruisers by volleying them through fantastical gravity fields.

Course Lesson Plan (~1 hour each)

Installing and Playing AstroVolley

Plotting

• Plotting Ships (Triangles)
• Plotting Gravitational Bodies (Circles)
• Gravity and Orbits
• Launching Volleys
  • Creating a Random Mission Map
  • Plotting Velocity Vectors (quiver)
  • Animating Trajectories (comet)

App Building (with App Designer)

• UIAxes, Properties, and Functions
• Sliders and Value Changing Callbacks
• Push Button Callbacks
• Generating a Random Map
• Keeping Score

Please see the AstroVolley Instructor Guide for more details.

Requirements and Recommended Prerequisites

• MATLAB R2021b (or later)
• Ages: 11+
• Completing any of the following courses...
  • Pixels to Pictures
  • Bytes and Beats
  • MATLAB Learn to Code
  • MATLAB Onramp

License

The license for AstroVolley Courseware is available in the license.txt file in this GitHub repository.

Community Support

• MATLAB Courseware
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