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Advancers – week 6 (2023 – 2024)

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Platformer Game

This week we created a platform game, the objectives of the game is to get as much milk as possible. But the more milk you get the smaller the platforms get and the smaller the milk gets.

If you end up at the bottom of the screen, you will lose a live and start at the top of the screen again.

You can use “Boosts” using the space key to jump up to higher platforms, but beware, you only get a few boosts, but getting milk will also give you 2 more boosts.

And remember, as always (well mostly always!) I have uploaded this to the Scratch web site, you can use the following URL to access it:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/930315522/

If you want to Sign In to the Scratch Website you can use the following credentials:

Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers

Don’t forget the uppercase A on the password.

Advancers – Week 5 (2023-2024)

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Car Racing Game (RoadRacing)

This week we created a Car Racing game, the object is to get as much score as possible by dodging all the other cars and trucks on the road.

The finished project is available on the Scratch Website:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/926443877/

If you want to SignInand edit any of the projects you can use the following credentials:

Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers

Note: The password has an uppercase “A” at the beginning.

Advancers – Week 4 (2023-2024)

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Snake

This week we attempted to recreate the old Nokia game of Snake.

We created:

The Snake – This could move around the screen and across the screen edges.
The Tail – This followed the Snake around the screen, wherever the Snake went, the tail would follow.
An Eraser – This followed the Tail rubbing it out, so it stayed the same length all the time.

We still need to complete the following:

The Bug – This will appear on the screen randomly for the Snake to eat. Eating the Bug will increase the length of the Tail.
Score – A simple scoring variable to keep track of how many Bugs we eat.
Music – Some annoying music to play during the Game, it has to be annoying!

I have uploaded 2 versions of the Game to the Scratch Web Site:
ClassVersion-Incomplete – This is from Saturday where we didn’t quite finish everything
ClassVersion-Complete – This is a complete version which has The Bug, The Score and annoying Music.

You can find them both here:

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/33944393

If you need to log in, use the following details:
Username : athenryadvancers
Password : Advancers (don’t forget the uppercase “A”)
This is an image from the completed version.

Bodgers – Week 2

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Hi everyone, it was great to see you all last Saturday.

We worked on a car collision game here is our worksheet:

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You can find the images for this game along with images for next week’s game here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/znirpob0ywen2kzwbgf6k/h?rlkey=ykhlgf8lbr4i35lu3ed8mrbrs&dl=0

Looking forward to seeing you all again next Saturday.

Declan and Kevin

Advancers – Week 1 (2023-2024)

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Welcome back everyone.

We started off this year with the Spirals Project.

We could specify how many lines the code should draw, how many sides the Spiral should have and then finally how many extra degrees we should turn before drawing the next line.

I have uploaded 2 versions of this project to the Scratch Website, you can get all the code and also play with them online.

ClassVersion-Spirals – This is the one we ended up with where it creates the early universe.
ClassVersion-SingleSpiral – This is the one that we started with, where you can choose the different values.

Go to:

https://www.scratch.mit.edu//

And then you can sign in with the following details, don’t forget the uppercase “A” on the password:

Username : AthenryAdvancers
Password : Advancers

Once you are connected you can go to “My Stuff” and then select the 2023-2024 Studio.

We’re Back! Information Session this Saturday

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A second reminder that there is an information session this coming Saturday 23th September 2023 at 12pm in Clarin College, Athenry.

Anyone who has children attending CoderDojo for the first time, or just has questions they’d like answered is encouraged to come along.

The session is expected to last less than one hour.

Our normal sessions will resume the following Saturday 30th September 2023 from 12-2pm. Please note the time change from last year!

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

2023/2024 Season

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CoderDojo Athenry will be returning on Saturday 23 Sept 2023 with an information session. Our first normal session will be the following Saturday, 30 Sept 2023.

The information session will be a short session, running from 12-1pm. All subsequent sessions will be two hours in duration, from 12-2pm.

If you have not attended CoderDojo Athenry before, please do your best to attend the information session. For all others it is optional.

We have four groups running this year:

EXPLORERS: for young kids (must know how to read) Learn Scratch! Program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch helps kids to learn to think creatively and reason systematically.

ADVANCERS: for kids ready to move on from Explorers, features more advanced projects in Scratch and some other technologies.

BODGERS: for kids who have done Scratch and want to move on to a more advanced coding language. We’ll use Python to create our own animations and games similar those being created in both Scratch groups. This year we may also look at using Python to control some electronic hardware.

CREATORS: an introduction to game design and programming using the Unity Game Engine and Blender 3D modelling software.

Ninjas from 7 to 17 are welcome to join us. Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent/guardian who stays in the same room as them for the full session.

We look forward to seeing you all!