Games Master: Beginner’s Computer Game Programming
Fancy yourself as a game designer? With this crash course on some of the basics of coding, you will learn how to create your own simple games.
Class Creator
Dr Chris Crowe (Head of Astronomy and Computer Science at Harrow School)
Workshop One: Guess the Number
Starting off in the ‘real world’, students will explore – through the unusual medium of jam and toast – how simple human instructions can be surprisingly complex for a computer to interpret, before applying this understanding to creating a number-guessing game, and using computer code to refine and build up the complexity of their games.
Workshop Two: Snake
In this second session, students will turn to a different element of game design by looking at how to create a graphical game, learning about how computers use code to visually represent pixels and colours, before building on their knowledge of coding to customise the difficulty level of their game.
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