Well, this site got ignored for a few years. 5 it looks like, from the dates of things. But, a friend in the Navy, stationed in Italy, was asking about ways to teach her children how to program. So I started the video series up again. Things have changed a …
Scratch is a great environment for creating and learning. Scratch has plenty of resources. The community they’ve created is amazing and their model allows users to borrow and learn from each other continuously. If one sees something cool, it is easy to download and see how they did it. Quickly …
Here, we go back to controlling the character. But this time, we drive it, instead of just move it left and right or up and down. It’s another way to think about how to move characters in the game. I want to show a variety of different approaches to movement, …
Scratch has a pen to allow kids to draw programmatically. This gives the kids a chance to play around with it. I try and have this lesson when the kids are going through some geometry lessons, to tie into their other work. Anytime I can leverage what they are doing …
Animation is a fun art, with a lot of good tricks and shortcuts. Scratch provides us a way to do many of them, but this side scroller game gives us a chance to show of some of the more standard techniques. The game itself is pretty simple, but the kids …
Games are what keep the kids interested, but I like showing that it can be used to make tools to help kids …
In the aquarium, the characters moved around on their own, programmatically, as a simulation. Now, we’ll get into allowing the user of …
We’ll add on the aquarium we built last time. First we’ll add background sounds to the aquarium, just for fun. I don’t …
In this lesson, we’ll get a little more animated and learn how to move our sprites around the screen. They’ll move randomly, …
Well, this site got ignored for a few years. 5 it looks like, from the dates of things. But, a friend in …
Scratch is a great environment for creating and learning. Scratch has plenty of resources. The community they’ve created is amazing and their …