Barcode Battles

App Design, Blog,

First Coding can help breathe new life into an old laptop or tablet. This week we’ve been developing apps for Kindle Fires using block-based coding. The game is a really clever idea, scanning barcodes on packets to work out your opponents statistics, rather like Top Trumps. A perfect way to brighten up any trip to the supermarket with your parents!

Library Coding Club

Blog, Events, Scratch,

The third session of the monthly coding club at Salisbury library took place yesterday and it proved a great deal of fun. First Coding taught the children how to make their own games and hopefully left them with ideas and an interest to keep coding throughout the rest of the Easter holidays. It was nice to involve some of the parents too.

Asteroids!

Blog, Scratch, ,

It’s been another fun day training a young team of coders in the art of making the classic game of Asteroids. I loved seeing all the different ideas for their games, especially the war, food and animal themed versions. Please keep working on your great games over the Easter holidays and if you get stuck, please just drop me a line.

Young Coders

Blog, Schools, Scratch

A huge congratulations to all the Young Coders’ school groups that finished this week. It’s been such good fun over the last six weeks building platform and arcade games with you all. I hope the certificates you all received inspires you to keep creating over the Easter holidays!

Digital Drinks

Blog, Events

Thank you to everyone who came over to say hi at last night’s Digital Drinks event in Salisbury. There was a great deal of interest in First Coding’s courses and app design workshops and it was a lot of fun showing off projects from past pupils.

Happy Hens

Blog, Scratch, ,

After learning that one of our young pupils recently bought some chickens for her garden, we set about designing a web page to advertise the eggs she was going to sell. The nice thing about Scratch 3 is that you can embed your projects really easily and this is exactly what we did here.

By designing an interactive Scratch project to introduce everyone to her new pets, Elsie was able to embed it into her website. You can see the finished result here.

Elsie's Happy Hens