Yesterday we got started on working our way through a Scratch tutorial book I picked up from the local library for sale shelf, How to code in 10 easy lessons.
Today we’ve written a buzzer game. You use the arrow keys to turn your arrow around, and the space key to move. In mine anyway:
Here’s Tigerboy’s.
He coded this without looking at the code in the book in the time it took me to read the two pages. And then he came over and helped me figure out how to do the things that don’t quite work like the book says, as it’s a bit old, and Scratch has updated a version since then.
I think he’s pretty good at coding. Hoping that I can help him move on to designing and then putting together code in something a bit more shareable than Scratch. Long term aim may be to write actual games, get Smallest to do graphics and NSSTeen to go the audio. Which would be a pretty cool evolution of our family home education.