Scratch 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.
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
Getting started with Scratch: Help for parents1 lecture • 4min
- For parents - helping your child get startedPreview04:05
Getting started with Scratch: Lessons (lectures)10 lectures • 1hr 52min
Instructor
![Matt Ottewill](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 24 Reviews
- 82 Students
- 3 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.