Entry-level game programming course in Scratch for students in grades 2-4 - free course from Foxford, training 30 lessons, Date: December 5, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 08, 2023
Who will benefit from the course?
A course for elementary school students with different levels of computer skills.
What knowledge does the course provide?
The course provides basic knowledge about computer operation, storing information, working with presentations, graphics and creating games and cartoons.
How the training works
During the course, you will find a series of webinars in which the teacher will show you step by step how to transfer your own creative ideas from your head to the digital space, creating amazing projects.
We manually check samples and homework.
We do not leave the written part assignments for self-testing - this is done by OGE experts.
We check “for real”, like in an exam, and as a result you receive detailed feedback. All this is for the sake of speed of preparation and your results.
A personal curator will answer questions within two hours, 24/7.
The curators understand the program and the subject, so they can easily answer your questions about the course and homework - at any time.
They know well how difficult it can be to prepare and understand your worries.
The most important task of a tutor is to help you cope with stress and fear before exams.
The lesson lasts 1 academic hour. Classes are held online on Saturdays from 11:00 to 12:00 (Moscow time).
Basic computer management
Together with the guys, we will find out what parts a computer consists of, how it turns out that in a computer a variety of things can be stored from photographs to cartoons, let's learn how to use the mouse and keyboard.
- What does computer consist of
- What is information
- Working in a raster image editor
- Create your own GIF animation
Graphic editor Scratch
Let's get acquainted with vector graphics, learn how to create your own characters and learn how to create animations in the Scratch program.
- What is the difference between vector graphics and raster graphics?
- The first vector graphics tools
- Character animation
Start programming
We will learn about the basic principles of creating programs, get acquainted with the concept of an algorithm and learn how to create our own cartoons.
- What is a program, command, algorithm
- Effects for characters
- Parallel execution of programs
- Own script for the cartoon
Game creation. Level 1
Let's move on to more serious projects and be able to create several small games, while simultaneously learning how to use arithmetic operations and knowledge about coordinates in programming
- Working with coordinates and characters
- Arithmetic operations
- How to create conditions for victory and defeat
- Learning to move the character using the keyboard
Game creation. Level 2
This section is dedicated to working with variables and the possibilities they provide for creating games. Let's learn how to count the number of points and remaining lives of the characters, which will make our games even more complex and interesting.
- What are variables
- How to count points
- Operations on numeric variables
- Operations on text variables
Game creation. Level 3
The time has come for big and serious projects. As part of this module, students will create several projects, the implementation of which will require all previously acquired knowledge.
- What are clones
- We use clones and variables
- What are lists