This course will be offered between April 17-21 2020, and give students an opportunity to excel in their levels and problem-solving skills in a short time.
Grade K-2: Game Design with Scratch Camp
Students will learn basic programming fundamentals through Scratch, a kid-friendly programming language designed by MIT. Students will create their own interactive applications.
- Day 1: Animate Name + Dance Party
- How to make sprites
- Using the sprite library
- Costumes
- Creating and changing the costumes for a sprite
- Using the backdrops library
- Creating or drawing our own backdrops
- Learning about events
- Coding the game to start
- Using music
- Coding using sounds
- Using motion blocks
- Sprite/character motion (without player controls yet)
- Day 2: Storybook (Create pages detailing an introduction, favorites, art, etc.)
- Learn how to use events/signals to allow the player to click
- Paint backdrops for pages
- Create text on backdrops
- Animate the page-flipping
- Code mouse functions
- Use if statements
- Forever loops
- Day 3: Princess/Prince Adventure (Allow the player to walk to different maps/scenes)
- Using if statements
- Learn about sensing blocks
- Coding to use arrow keys
- Forever loops
- Learn how to switch scenes/backdrops
- Add and code sounds
- We will play each other’s games in the last hour or 2!
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