Welcome to Code Club

You are going to be telling the computer

what to do!Your pass to the club

What level will you get to?

This session

• Get to know you• Get to know Scratch• Create a game: Felix and Herbert

Getting to know you

• Who has a computer at home?• What has Internet access at home?• Has anyone done programming before?• How many have used Scratch before?

Felix and Herbert

• A game of catch• Stop Herbert the mouse being caught by Felix

the cat• Control Herbert with the mouse• Longer you avoid Felix the more points you

score• When you get caught the score will go down

Felix and Herbert

• Felix follows mouse pointer• Felix chases Herbert• Felix says when he’s caught Herbert• Herbert turns into a ghost when he’s caught• Keep score

Process

TipsLeave the look say

block in STEP 4

Have a go at increasing the speed

as you play the game?

Solution for speedStops speed from being too fast

Choose a colour in the background

How quickly do you want speed to change?

Create a variable

What was most fun?What was easy?

What was difficult?How did you sort out the difficult bits?

Star coder this week:

Next week: Whack a Witch!