SELF-PACED

Learn Coding with Scratch3.0

Redirect the child’s natural enthusiasm for playing games into creating games and coding

  • Age Group7 - 11 years
  • Course Duration2 hours
  • Session Duration5 - 10 Minutes
  • CompletionNo
  • Sessions14 Sessions
  • FrequencySelf Paced
  • Course Valid Till
    Forever

About The Course

This course is designed for parents who want to re-direct their child's natural enthusiasm of playing games into creating games. It is an ideal course to help your child aged between 7-11 years to begin the journey to learn how to code. As your child learns to create 3 new games, they extend their knowledge and skills while embracing creativity. Coding is a primary skill for the modern workplace and this course will help give students a head start in their computer studies at school and thereafter at further and higher education and in the workplace. The video-on demand sessions lead the learner through the entire coding process. Each step is explained and demonstrated. Your child will build confidence with Scratch, acquire beginner games coding skills, and improve their creative, math and computational thinking skills.

Who Is This Course For?

Parents who want to give their children a head start in computer studies at school. Anyone who plays games and would like to learn how to create their own games.

Course Objectives

What you'll learn as you build 3 new games:
  • Sprite movement control with keyboard events
  • Sprite costume switch animation
  • Sprite sensing conditionality
  • Use of variable
  • Loops & Control Flow

Curriculum

Introduction to the MIT Scratch 3.0 Coding Platform - Online & Offline Editor

  • Coding with Scratch 101 - Introduction to Scratch Editor

    00:08:00

Game 1 - Random Star Catcher

  • Add Sprite and Background

    00:06:00

  • What are Events

    00:06:00

  • What is a Variable

    00:08:00

  • What is a Loop

    00:08:00

  • All about Conditional Statements

    00:11:00

Game 2 - Feed the Hungry Crab

  • Controlling your Sprites

    00:14:00

  • Loop and Bounce your Sprites

    00:04:00

  • Add Score and Game Timer

    00:14:00

  • How to Decide if Game is Over

    00:05:00

Game 3- Loopy Loop Octopus Chase

  • How to Animate your Sprite with Loops

    00:09:00

  • Control Sprite with Mouse

    00:04:00

  • Increase Sprite speed over time with Variables

    00:13:00

  • Switch backdrops with Conditional Statements and Game Over

    00:07:00

Instructor

4D Learning

4D Learning

4D learning powered by Stem Center Ace

STEM Center ACE, is a globally recognised ed-tech firm providing futuristic learning programs and support to a diverse community of STEM learners and future entrepreneurs in the age group of 6-17 years with an aim at channeling your learning identities into future-ready professions which include over 50+ course levels in Robotics, Coding, 3D Design & Mindfulness.

“4D Learning” is at the core of our forward-thinking tech education framework that provides ample opportunities to Aspire, Create & Exceed (ACE) in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) knowledge.

Just as Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics are the core pillars of any society, so does our '4D Learning' framework integrate all the four dimensions - Feeling Intrigued, Ideate Intuitively, Initiate solution & harness Ingenuity for real-life problem solving.