Teaching Programming to Kids - by a 13 year old
summary
A 13 year old builds a working game live using Scratch on scratch.mit.edu showing cloning NPCs and variables to spawn enemies and delete clones on contact, arrow keys and a space key to move and throw, and costume switching for direction. The demo becomes a complete playable game called Kool-Aid Crush with health packs, limited cups and refill mechanics. Claims include Scratch being for ages 8 up and available in 70 languages, with 22 million users and ~25,000 new members per day, and the live build actually runs.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Why should kids code
- 8:23Stage
- 9:40Scratch
- 12:10Wind Flags
- 13:10Moonwalk
- 14:00Looks
- 14:30Movement
- 16:30Clone Block
- 17:30KoolAid Man
- 19:30Forever
- 20:30Clone
- 22:30Direction
- 23:30Touching Koolaid
- 24:30Koolaid Crush
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