Game Development and Coding for Children (Udemy.com)

Teach your kids how to make games and animations with the MIT coding platform for children.

( 100 Reviews )

Created by: Pablo Farias Navarro

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Learn how to make simple games, stories and animations using Scratch
Learn basic coding concepts such as conditions and loops

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Course Description

What if instead of just playing games and watching TV, your kids could actually make THEIR OWN games and animated stories? This course is aimed for kids between 8 and 16 and they'll learn how to make simple games, stories and animation using Scratch, a visual programming platform for children created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Scratch makes it very simple for kids to understand basic coding concepts and to make their creations come true by just dragging and dropping elements and connecting them with each other. It is highly visual, interactive and fun! The course is project-based, this means we'll work though out actual examples that you can modify and play with afterwards. Cat in Desert Wizard Boy Zombie Farm Ocean Story Halloween Game What your kids will learn in this course: Using intuitive building blocks to visually craft simple web games, stories and animations. Grasping programming concepts such as conditions and loops. Taught with a project-based methodology. Make their creations interactive for the users. Share their games and animations so that other people can play and modify them. Most importantly, understand how simple it is to make their creative ideas a reality in today's world. This course is taught by Beth Baumgartner, engineer from the University of Wisconsin with postgraduate studies at the University of Queensland (Australia). The course has been created in collaboration with Pablo Farias Navarro, founder of ZENVA. At ZENVA we are teaching over 8000 students from all over the world how to create games, mobiles apps and websites. We are one of Udemy's top selling course providers with excellent reviews from our students. Disclaimer: This course is independently created by ZENVA using the MIT's Scratch platform. It is not an official course by the MIT. Who this course is for:
Age group 8 until 16 years oldNo prior knowledge is required

Time: 2h

Instructor Details

Pablo Farias Navarro

4.5 Rating
100 Reviews

Certified game developer and Founder of ZENVA - the world's leading platform to learn game making, VR, machine learning and full-stack programming. Since 2012, Pablo has been developing professional-grade courses that have helped over 400,000 learn to code.
Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific Region, and has run live programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore.
Pablo holds a Master in Information Technology (Management) degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile.

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By Shaan Carmignani on 11/15/2020

i do not like scratch

By Sheikh Mohamad bin Said on 10/7/2020

it is looks very fun so far

By Faizal Thamrin on 10/5/2020

This corse made me like coding and making games

By Avanti Ketkar on 9/25/2020

I loved it! Now I can make my own stories on Scratch. I already made one and am working on another!

By Romy Rayner on 9/24/2020

It's free videos off youtube and they're all out-dated! Total rip-off.

By Vudugu Shabarishwara Sai on 8/25/2020

It was interesting and easy to understand I was very excited thank you for making this course.

By Aurora D on 8/15/2020

yes

By Bianca on 7/26/2020

you took away the wizard boy. Why do you still have this exercise if there is no wizard boy. Other than that it is really fun, I am 15 years old girl who want to learn more about coding and game design and this really helps. Thanks for your hard work in this app

By Mackenzie Knapp on 7/25/2020

I love this app but the first thing you do in a long way

By Aisha Anabel Pitters Martinez on 7/23/2020

I like this course bacause she made mistakes and she fixed them, I also like how she was very specific and made us understand what everything means. I like how she explained it slowly so no one would get stuck your lost on how to use Scratch. Very well one!

By Francisco Rodriguez on 7/19/2020

yeah it was good

By Faris Mustafa on 7/19/2020

it was amazing and helped me alot in understanding the bases of programming I will buy courses soon thank you for the help zenva!
Regards,
Faris Mustafa