Introduction to Scratch Programming Level 1 (ISL1/7-8) or equivalent is required for this course.
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In this course the girls will continue to explore the Scratch platform and learn about a wider variety of coding blocks that will enable them to make increasingly sophisticated games and animations. They will also develop their algorithmic thinking by learning and practicing coding concepts that they will use in the upcoming courses.
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This course takes 16 sessions to complete.
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Concepts explored:
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Getting started
Event handlers
Drawing sprites and backgrounds
x-y coordinates
Angles and directions
Sequence
Loops
Importing sprites
Text to speech feature
Basic conditional statements (if statements, if-then)
Defining variables
Broadcasting messages
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