animation and games programming coding get kids Heather Lyons
Contents Getting Started Games in All Shapes and Sizes Story Time Keep on Moving Look Out Treat Time High Score Level Up Let’s Celebrate The Final Test Extension Activities Words to Remember Activity Answers Index 3 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 22 23 24 Children will need access to the Internet for most of the activities in this book Parents or teachers should supervise Internet use and discuss online safety with children
Getting Started Hi I’m Data Duck I am going to show you how to make your own computer game In order to make a game we need to design what it will look like To make it work we need to use computer code We will also look at how we can animate a character in a game To animate means to bring to life this means we will write code that makes the character move DATA DUCK Computer code is a set of rules or instructions These instructions tell the computer how our game works what it looks like and how it is played The code we will be using is made of blocks Each block has a different set of instructions in it When we place these blocks in the right order we can make our computer do all sorts of things There are lots of activities in the book for you to try out There are also some online activities for you to practice For the online activities go to www blueshiftcoding com kidsgetcoding and look for the activity with the page number from the book 3
