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DR-04: Lego Kit
This project simulates a lego construction kit, allowing the creation of sophisticated designs with a relatively simple program.
DR-04: Lego Kit
This project simulates a lego construction kit, allowing the creation of sophisticated designs with a relatively simple program.
Students at Expo were beta testers for a new programming software called Scratch. Designed specifically for youth, it allows them to create their own stories, animations, fames, music and art.
Scratch tutorials from www.expo.spps.org
This is an awesome Site, I love the entrance page. The site relies heavily on flash, but it is an awesome place to interact with Tlingit Culture. Also, you get to drag and drop to creat comic books and resize, how awesome is that?
Scratch Programming Handbook home sitemap links
Fish !
Fish! is a simple game that can be built quickly by a novice scratch programmer. The main character is a shark which is controlled by the mouse and wanders around the screen eating fish. Yellow fish taste nice but eating a red fish will give the shark indigestion.
The basic principles behind of this type of game can be used to make many different games simply by changing the background and the graphics on the sprites. A game set in space with a rocket chasing astronauts and aliens would be simple to create using fish! as a base.
The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe after-school learning environment where young people from under-served communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
From the folks at the Lifelong Kindergarten Project.
I'm not sure why but there are numerous countries listed, and none of them are in Canada. Sad as I would really enjoy seeing a project like this somewhere close by
I took a computer training course (week long) offered by UVIC and IBM last week, the instructors were very nice, very smart, and really just awesome. One of the instuctors, Sarah, showed me a program called Scratch.
There are two reasons I really enjoyed this program. Firstly, I found that it a good introduction to programming, and makes the processes that one goes through while programming easier to understand. I find the visuals aid in learning, and the program itself is very interactive. Secondly, I work with students and I am rather excited to show them this program. I think they will love it, and am hoping that it will get a few of them hooked and that they may find something they might want to consider going into after highschool (ie a computer science program).
Currently, I am going to write a short tutorial on how to develop a pong game and then I plan on sharing it with the kids at work first, and then the students at FRES.
I am hoping that after they develop their own pong games that they will go on to develop different games and projects with scratch.