Coding for Kids - learn programming from scratch OfCourse
Price: USD 16
USD 32
  • Duration: Flexible

Course details

You will register an account in Scratch
  • Understand coding and its building blocks
  • Detect motion through using sensors
  • Allow a program to make its own decisions
  • Create randomisation in games
  • Add sound effectsThen you will able to share your game with whoever you like (or don't like, it's up to you!)… 

Programming is the language of the future. Give your kids the head start they need on all things coding, and learn a thing or two yourself.

This course is also suitable for absolute beginners who just happen to be adults!

In this course, young Joshua will be taking Dr Craig through how to create a game in Scratch. There will be cats running around, balls flying everywhere and dragons breathing fire and racing across your screen.

This is a unique approach to course creation and shows how much we all have to learn from the younger generation, for whom this is all second nature. Equally for young children want to learn to code, they will see that they should have the confidence to do it, just as Joshua does in these lectures.

Scratching the surface
  • Say hi to your fellow students!
  • Share your new course with your friends!
  • What is programming?
  • Register with Scratch
  • Scratch Overview
Moving cats & drawing balls
  • Program 1 - a moving cat!
  • Program 2 - follow that cat!
  • Program 3 - a moving ball!
  • Program 4 -… drawing a ball with a pen
  • Program 5 -… sounds effects on your ball
  • Program 6 -… make your own sprite
  • Program 7 -… additional moving sprites
Game theory!
  • Program 8 - random sprite move
  • Program… 9 - Dragon Enemy!
Get Competitive
  • Program 10 - Keeping score
  • Program 11 - Adding Levels
  • Program… 12 - A Speedy Dragon
Next Steps
  • Share your game
  • Summary & The Future
Updated on 29 January, 2017

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