Holiday Camp

Advanced Scratch Programming

Schedule: Mon 12 Dec - Fri 16 Dec, 2pm-5pm

Ages: 7 - 12

Requirements: Completion of an Intermediate Scratch Programming course

Goals

By the end of this course, kids will learn to break down complex project ideas, and understand how more complex games are made. They will be able to express ideas computationally, design better and programme more awesome projects.

Course Description

Advanced Scratch Programming guides students through challenging concepts in Scratch Programming. Building on their foundation of Scratch fundamentals, students will be able to create intricate animations and games using complex logic and program design. Students broaden their understanding of variables, operators, and event-driven programming while applying their existing knowledge in new ways of thinking about Scratch.

Instructors

Instructors at Saturday Kids are curious about design and technology. They come from diverse backgrounds such as psychology, design, business and computer science. They are not necessarily software engineers by training, but having taught themselves programming as they believe computational thinking and digital literacy are basic skills every child needs.

Course Outline

1. Visualising Data: Video Motion, Seeing Sounds

Students experiment with visualising data gathered from sensors such as the computer's microphones and video camera. They learn how to build this into their games, using design rules and conditional statements.

2. Scrolling Games

Students learn how to make a scrolling game with a physics game engine (think supermario and flappy bird). We’ll learn how to build horizontal and vertical scrolling projects.

3. Making Interactive Animations

Students programme short animations in Scratch. Students learn how to craft a story, and design the looks, behaviours, and sounds of characters. They will build pages and interactivity into their projects to make more fun and complex animations.

4. Scratch That Bug!

Students test and debug each other's codes and programme final changes to their games, using logic and systematic reasoning.

5. Share and Present!

Students share their projects with their friends and reflect on their creative experiences throughout the workshop.

FAQs

1. My child is new to computers and programming. Will he / she be able to follow?

We would recommend that your child joins our Beginner's Scratch Programming course, as it’s developed for new programming students.

2. My child has done Scratch programming before. I'm unsure which level my child should join.

For our Intermediate class the requirement is for kids who have already completed an introductory Scratch course which covers all the basic modules that allows your kid to build on a solid foundation. The advanced course requires that students have gone beyond the basics and are able to build more complex and interactive projects. Please email us a link to your child's Scratch profile and we can take a look and advise you on which level will be most suitable for your child.

3. I've enrolled my child, what will he/she