Wheelworks is delighted to deliver a 1 week special Coding Dojo for anyone interested in learning latest in tech, building a practical project and socialising online with like minded people your age.  

Whether you’re new to game coding , or are an enthusiast already who wants to learn more, this short course is a perfect introduction to game design & coding.  

We're running daily 1-hour video classes over 5 days (1–5th June). Led by our expert tutor Robin Price,  these small-group classes will have no more than 20 students. It will be on a first come first serve basis so sign up and join us now.  

WHAT TO EXPECT 

We start with learning programming fundamentals in a fun way by modifying pre-existing games, and then move on to principles of game design like making use of sprites, cloning, background animations, sounds and images.  Along the way you’ll make several interactive single-player and multi-player games.  You’ll finish by using your newfound skills to design your own game in a style of your choice. 

• Day One: Logging in to Open Processing and first steps in drawing shapes on screen. Learning about co-ordinates and drawing simple shapes. 

• Day Two: Introducing variables and functions to draw objects at different locations on the screen. 

• Day Three: Colouring in, learning how computers deal with colour and using this to create colourful programs. We create a colourful rainbow and learn how to draw text to create an online stay at home save lives poster. 

• Day Four: Making things move, using everything we learnt in weeks one and two we’ll make a simple ball move across the screen.  

• Day Five: Interactivity — we’ll use the computer keyboard to make our programs responsive and game like. Using everything we’ve learnt so far we’ll take our moving ball and introduce bats.  

Finishing up, using what we learnt about variables and text we’ll add scoring system to re-create the first video game “PONG”.