Day 6 - Our final class!

We started our final class by explaining the answers to the activity from Tuesday. We had the kids share their final games with their tables, and let them explore other projects on the Scratch explore tab.

We ended the class by suggesting other computer science resources they could explore, such as code.org, Swift Playgrounds, and Code monster. We had everyone take a final evaluation, and they shared their favorite part about the course.

Thank you to everyone who joined us these past 3 weeks! It has been so fun and such a learning experience. You guys truly brightened our days, and we hope to see you explore your coding journeys in the future.

"Thanks-a-lot" for the gift :)

~ Blog by Dhwani Sreenivas

Day 5

Today we let the kids continue to work on their bakery games, but ended with an activity that would help the girls understand “real code”.

This activity let them fill in the blanks of real java code which, as they learned, wasn’t as difficult as it looked!

We also have a website that houses this activity and all of our other lessons! Take a look at it here.

Day 4

Today we had a challenge to create storefront shops in Scratch. Players can buy items and gain/lose money. This introduced the concept of variables by using a money variable that changed based on what the user did. We had a demonstration to help everyone get started.

Everyone was really creative, and we saw some pet, clothing, grocery, and even taco stores!

We finished up by giving an evaluation survey on loops.

Day 3

Today we worked on adding obstacles to the mazes the girls created last week. We showed an example project, “Dragons vs. Wizards”, to get a feeling for how obstacles in games worked.

We then had a presentation on loops and conditional statements. These were used to have specific things happen when a character ran into an obstacle.

We finished by having the girls take a quick evaluation survey on operators. We’re officially halfway through the program!