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Teaching Kids Game Programming
- 1. Teaching Kids Game Programming Christopher Cotton Barcamp Nashville 2009
- 2. Why? why teach kids coding? why this talk?
- 3. Why teach kids? Wished I had this Kids get so excited, a real challenge Inspire them to learn more The Future! Why this talk? I love the teaching Better than building widgets Inspire you
- 4. But, really why? demo: video
- 5. What? Intro to Programming
- 6. What do I teach? Functions, Class Graphics, Screen Layout Math Animation Event driven Game Logic
- 7. What? but really what do I teach?
- 8. But, what really? Logical Thinking Experimentation How to Teach Yourself Thoughts into Code
- 9. Where? YSI
- 10. Where? Young Scholars Institute (YSI) Part of Franklin Special School District Around for 25+ years 2 Weeks during the Summer 1400 Kids, 120 Teachers http://fssd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=207
- 11. What technology? Language? processing.org java
- 12. Why Processing? Full running app in one line FREE FREE FREE Runs on Mac/Linux/Win More complex event driven
- 13. What do I teach? details details!
- 14. First day most common question?
- 15. First Day When can we get on the computers? Car racing! Functions Drawing, colors Overview of processing, reading docs demo: 01 drawing Content
- 16. Second Day most common question?
- 17. Second Day Where do I put this code? Animation - movement program structure if demo: 02 first playing with random 03 animations Content
- 18. Third Day most common question?
- 19. Third Day Why is it doing this?!?!?! Game basics - health, score, collision key moving, mouse control Each kids on different path demo: 04 block style games (not breakout!) Content
- 20. Fourth Day most common question?
- 21. Fourth Day How much time do we have left? Building their own game demo: 05 almost art 06 guitar hero Content
- 22. Fifth Day and Beyond most common question?
- 23. Fifth Day, Beyond How can I get this? Finishing Their Game, Demos! Demos! Demos! demo: 07 tron light cycle 08 written over the year Content
- 24. Final Thoughts
- 25. Final Thoughts Challenge: not answers Let them learn They built a game! Amazed at just one week So Much Energy, Fun
- 26. Go teach your passion Q&A