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Scratch games coding for kids - Getting started

Transforming children from players of games into creators
Highest Rated
Rating: 4.9 out of 54.9 (27 ratings)
96 students
Created by Matt Ottewill
Last updated 12/2020
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Creative games making with Scratch
  • Getting around the Scratch interface
  • Creating player controls
  • Making sprites move by themselves
  • Creating collisions
  • Painting your own sprites
  • How to make a ping pong game

Requirements

  • Be able to use a computer mouse and keyboard

Description

This course is designed for parents who want to re-direct their child's natural enthusiasm for playing games into creating games and coding. It has has been created specifically with young learners in mind and is suitable for 7-12 year olds.

Every lesson has been carefully scripted to be clear and unambiguous. Our instructor is a qualified and experienced teacher who speaks clearly and precisely, leading the learner through every detail of the activity. Each step is explained and demonstrated.

As the lessons progress, your child will build familiarity with Scratch, follow game making exercises, build a complete game and acquire the skills and knowledge required to build their own games. In so doing they will begin to understand the fundamental transferable concepts of coding, and improve their creative, math and computational thinking skills.

Who this course is for:

  • Young learners and beginners
  • Children who play games and would like to learn how to create their own
  • Parents who want to transform their children from players of games into creators

Course content

2 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 59m total length

  • Preview04:01
  • Preview04:05

  • Preview15:03
  • A good way to begin a game
    07:19
  • Control a sprite's movement
    12:00
  • Make a sprite move by itself
    08:05
  • Collisions
    07:41
  • Broadcasting between sprites
    08:33
  • The paint window
    15:20
  • More about the stage
    09:49
  • Show and hide
    11:49
  • Make your first finished game - Ping pong
    15:53

Instructor

Matt Ottewill
School teacher - specialist in coding and computing
Matt Ottewill
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 72 Reviews
  • 243 Students
  • 4 Courses

Matt is a digital media educator, designer, and music technologist. He runs his own business The Pixel Gang, teaching games coding and digital media creation to children.

He has written qualifications and developed programmes for universities, adult education, and apprenticeships in the fields of digital media and marketing, music technology and computing, and contributes content to online learning platforms.

His passion is teaching young learners the coding and computing skills and knowledge they will need for their secondary education, university degrees and future careers.

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