Sunday 2 March 2014

Turtle Programming Fun

26 Jan and  23 Feb 2014


These two single-day workshops were for young programmers aged 6-8

In total, 16 children attended, the majority of them Japanese kids who had attended international kindergarten, and therefore knew some English. A handful had a foreign parent and were bilingual.

We began by playing the famous Kickstarted game Robot Turtles:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles-the-board-game-for-little-programmer



Then we moved on to a simulation of the game on Raspberry Pi. Finally, children used actual Scratch blocks in another turtle game.
Both of these games I created on Scratch 1.4 for Raspberry Pi, but I also uploaded versions to my Scratch account (therefore Scratch 2):

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/16456776/

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/17115196/