I am teaching Rebecca some more programming by helping her make a word game called Wordchuck. It scrambles six letters, and you try to find the words hiding in them. Having a game to play together makes the programming more fun. There is a woodchuck, of course. I wanted to work on breaking a problem […]
I am teaching Rebecca how to make a little Dodge game in App Lab. It is still called Untitled Project over there. Naming things can wait. We are having fun making it work together: move your square with the mouse and try not to run into the other squares. This is one of my favorite […]
For another programming project with Rebecca, I wanted to teach her how two computers could share a game. We came back to tic-tac-toe, but this time one player creates a game and gets a code that the other player can use to join. A fun new problem for a familiar game. I wanted Rebecca to […]
I am teaching Rebecca how to put together a little adventure game called Cake Quest. So far we have a bedroom, an inventory, and some wheat seeds to pick up. You can also equip a meow. Meowing at the wheat does not make it meow back. Important game feature. I wanted to help her break […]
One of the things I like about teaching Rebecca to program is getting to make little games together. This time we made four squares that look almost the same, except one is a slightly different color. Pick that one. It gets surprisingly hard! I wanted to practice random numbers and keeping score. We start with […]
I have been teaching Rebecca about colors in code, and we made another little game to play with the idea. It gives you a random color and three sliders. Adjust the red, green, and blue until your color matches it before time runs out. I wanted to connect the numbers to what she could see. […]
A little programming lesson with Rebecca turned into a bouncing ball experiment. Move the mouse to choose where the ball goes, then click to drop it. There is even a shadow underneath. I like having a simple project we can play with while I teach her something new. I wanted to show her how animation […]
One of the fun parts of teaching Rebecca to program is that our projects do not have to be useful. This time we made a funny face in Game Lab. Moving the mouse stretches its head and mouth and moves its eyes. The arrow keys change the color. Pretty entertaining. I wanted to show her […]
I have been teaching Rebecca some programming with a game she already knows: tic-tac-toe. We built this one together in App Lab. Knowing the rules is the easy part. Getting the computer to follow all of them gives us something fun to figure out together. I wanted to practice keeping track of whose turn it […]
Rebecca loves programming, so I have been teaching her some JavaScript by making little projects together in Code.org. A drawing app is a fun place to start because she can see something happen right away. This version has different brushes, a size slider, and a custom color picker. I wanted to work on events and […]