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  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241701430
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Computer Coding Games in Scratch for Kids




If you like playing computer games, why not make your own?

If you like playing computer games, why not make your own? This book has all you need to build amazing games, including thrilling racing challenges, zany platform games, and fiendish puzzles.

Follow the simple steps to become an expert coder, using the popular programming language Scratchâ„¢ 3.0. This updated edition is the first to be tablet-computer friendly, making it even easier to get coding.

Improve your coding skills and create your own games, before remixing and customizing them. Jumpy Monkey will show you how to simulate gravity in your games, or give Dog's Dinner a go to learn about collision detection.

Pick up the fundamentals of computer programming in steps that make even the most difficult coding concepts fun and easy to understand. Don't just learn how computer code works - understand why it's done that way.

Then share your games online and challenge friends and family to beat each other's scores. Once you 've whizzed through the book, the possibilities are endless!

  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241701430
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman is one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities. She feels passionately about the value of education, and joined forces with Dorling Kindersley in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion, working with DK to produce this bestselling Made Easy series in Maths, English, and Science.

Carol has a Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, and first became known for performing speedy calculations on television. She is committed to popularising and communicating about maths and science, and writes on these subjects for national newspapers. Carol appears regularly on maths and science television programmes on Channel 4, ITV, and the BBC. She is currently leading a Maths Task-Force for the Conservative Party, investigating how to improve maths teaching in British state schools.

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