Be Successful Learning Scratch
Scratch gets a bad press with its colourful blocks and cartoon sprites, people automatically assume that it's intended for just primary school learners, when it so isn't. There is so…
BAFTA Young Game Designers’ Workshop
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…
Satchel Classes
First Coding is very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting coding classes on the Satchel platform. Satchel are the people behind Show Your Homework, something that a number of…
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…