After running the after school clubs online, it was nice to start this recent coding club at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in person. The club went online during lock down which was great but nothing quite beats having everyone in the classroom creating together.
In addition to our regular tuition classes, First Coding will be running the following Scratch and Python coding workshops this Easter break. For more information and to book, please email hello@firstcoding.co.uk
Good luck to everyone who took part in the First Coding BAFTA Young Game Designers’ workshop. The quality of games produced over the six weeks was incredible. BAFTA have recently announced that they’re extending the deadline, so you now have until the 24th March to submit your games. THE VERY BEST OF LUCK!
Are you finding it frustrating that you can’t design nice looking sprites and backgrounds in your Scratch games? Check out this short video and learn a few simple but effective techniques to make your creations look great.
There are a couple of places left on the up and coming Python Introductory course that starts on Saturday 6th February. For more details check out our courses page here.
The workshops got off to a great start this week, in particular the BAFTA Young Game Designers course as students work towards creating their awesome games to enter into the national competition.
Do you find yourself stuck for inspiration when it comes to making games? We’ve put together the Ideas Generator to help you out. Just click on the link and hit the spin button to get a new, random game idea. Click here to spin.
Thank you to everyone who attended the online Christmas cracker workshop. Children built interactive animations that selected random jokes from a list. You can view one of the projects here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/462933204/ Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and may your cracker jokes be funny as ours!
As families will be playing their favourite traditional games over Christmas, an idea was hatched to look at building a variety of timers that people can use when playing. Here are three examples of our timers built using Scratch, they’re Super Mario themed!
