New and Popular After School Clubs
As the new school year begins, First Coding is getting ready to run new and familiar coding workshops. The popular Scratch and Python workshops return once again but there are…
Summer Holiday Workshops
The summer holidays are nearly here, which can only mean that it's the return of the First Coding holiday workshops! All hosted via Zoom, the workshops promise to help inspire…
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…
The Vikings Are Coming!
This term's Younger Coders' courses are centred around quizzes where children have to build a series of questions and work out whether the answers are correct or not. Here is…
Thank You
A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Easter coding workshops, I hope you all found them to be a great deal of fun. For those who attended the…
Easter Coding Workshops
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…
Adding Gravity to Sprites
This is a quick tutorial on how to make your sprites jump more realistic in your games by applying gravity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYlBZGfYQzQ
Getting Creative with the Scratch Sprite Editor
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…
The Game Ideas Generator
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.…
Cracker Projects
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:…