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Coding Materials

Jump through planes game with Scratch

This Scratch guide for a game with Scratch has been a free product in my TPT shop for a while now. Users seems to like it, and now I’m bringing it for all of you to use with your students or family. We are starting from the default Scratch project. Remove Sprite1 (the cat). Draw […]

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Coding Education Future Teaching

The one problem with coding in schools

First of all, this blog post represents my personal opinion and views of the future world. And from the future world’s point of view, there is one problem with coding in schools… The good intention It’s obvious that coding is coming to schools strongly in different countries around the globe and there is a reason […]

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Education

Super easy labyrinth game with Scratch

First, you’ll need a maze. You can use your own or download this: To make things simple, make sure that whichever maze you use, it has no openings. This is how we avoid player form coming out of the maze and just bypass it from outside. 2. Download your maze of choice as a backdrop: […]

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Education

2 easy and 2 professional ways to teach coding

I’ve been teaching coding (along mathematics) for kids aged 9-16 for several years. I’ve proceeded in this order: code.org Scratch Python Unity First two are quite easily doable for teacher/parent with no programming experience. About the last two, I personally think that Unity is more appealing for today’s youngsters, but as an example of text-based […]