Scratch games coding for kids - Getting started
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.
Technology advances at a formidable rate and we know how important it is for our children to not only keep abreast of new developments, but to also have a firm grasp of underlying computing concepts.
Our activities not only teach essential underlying technical knowledge and skills such as computing concepts, coding, file types, and the different types of media, but also utilise creative games, image and music making exercises and projects that inspire and motivate children.
Creativity is about questioning, problem solving, self expression and working with others, and these attributes are valued by employers, lead to personal self-fulfilment and build confidence in young learners. And it can be a lot of fun too.
Who this course is for:
- Parents who want to transform their children from players of games into creators
- Parents who want to give their children a head start in computer studies at school, further and higher eduction, and in the workplace
- Young learners and beginners
- Children who play games and would like to learn how to create their own
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 344 Reviews
- 903 Students
- 8 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.