Musical Animations in Scratch
Recently we have been learning how to animated to music using Scratch and there have been some great projects coming out of the lessons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7d4zkytAU
Christmas Coding Workshop
Festive fun with First Coding!
Ecology Simulator
We've been putting together an ecology simulator in Scratch where the user has to decide when to introduce predators in order to bring balance to the ecosystem. Both the insects…
Game Jams
Weekly game jams such as the one held over at WeeklyGameJam are a great way of getting inspired and experimenting with new game design ideas. It's also a great way…
Amazing Competitions
We're running our competitions again! If you're in one of the schools that hosts a First Coding computer club, be on the look out for our competition. Over the next…
Library Coding Club
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…
Asteroids!
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…
Young Coders
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…
Happy Hens
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…
Half Term Certificates
It's been back to back workshops this half term. For all the younger coders I hand out little certificates for a job well done. Some of the games that are…