The Radio Interview
You can hear the interview that went out on this morning's Breakfast Show below. In it I talk about the plans we have to build a series f games in…
Coding Projects on the Radio
Listeners to BBC Radio Wiltshire will be able to hear all about some of the great projects coming out of First Coding tomorrow morning. Hopefully the projects featured will demonstrate…
Top 5 Creative Coding Tips
Are you new to coding in Scratch or maybe you would like to improve on your Python programming skills? Then here are our top 5 tips on creative coding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSPLMUJdKg
Python School Groups
We continue this week with our popular Python school groups, looking at clever ways to code text-based Choose Your Own Adventure games. Already there are some great ideas forming and…
A Puzzle Challenge
It's challenge time! First Coding asked a couple of game studios to set a challenge and they didn't disappoint. No coding experience is required for these challenges, it's open to…
Game Design Video Series – Part 3
In this week's game design video we finish up on our Scratch game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below to learn how to code the paper aeroplanes that the player…
Game Design Video Series – Part 2
It's target time! In this episode we'll be looking at how the random targets in the game are coded. Every Friday they’ll be a new video showing how we make…
Game Design Video Series: Part 1
Welcome to the first episode of our Scratch game design series. Every Friday they'll be a new video showing how we make the game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below…
Step by Step Video Guides to Game Design
JOIN FIRST CODING AS WE MAKE A LOCKDOWN COMPUTER GAME Starting Friday 24th April First Coding is about to start making its first computer game inspired by the current lockdown.…
Half Term Code Cracking
If you were one of the pupils who made their own Caesar cipher apps last term, you maybe interested to see this post from the Science Museum. Can you crack…