STRONG CODE CLUB GROUP NEWSLETTER

Strong code club group welcome you to our first edition of Newsletter.

In a glance:

What is code club?

Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs.  Our projects are step-by-step guides that help young people to make their own games, animations with codes.

Code club is a platform where games and animation are produced.

What is scratch?

It is an application software where the activities in code club projects are carried out i.e. creating a game etc.

Sprites: they are characters used for creation of games it could be animals’ objects, human being objects etc.

Backdrop: is the background that beautifies a game or other types of projects e.g. market, road, town, basketball court etc which determines your design look.

Sound: can be from cars, animals’ human being that you can be used for game creation project etc.

Costume: This is a place where sprites are decorated by using paint editor, for example to change a toad sprite  appearance.

Code: This is the home where blocks are assembled to make the sprite go into action which is the programming process.

See Scratch Editor from below link:

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-scratch/3

Terminologies used in code club

The Stage is where the action takes place in your project. The Stage has one or more background images called backdrops.

Sprites are characters and objects that appear on the Stage. Sprites are given instructions using Scratch code blocks. This is called programming.

Drag code blocks from the Blocks menu to the Code area to program your sprites and the Stage. Code blocks can make a sprite move around, change the way that it looks, and play sounds.

Sprites can have multiple costumes. You can change the costume to change the appearance of a sprite. This can be used for effects such as giving the appearance of walking.

A script is a series of blocks that are joined together to give instructions to the Stage or sprites. The Stage and sprites can each have many different scripts.

BENEFITS OF THE CODE CLUB

It brings entertainment and fun to us the creators.

It helps us to know how to create game and animation etc.

WHY CODE CLUB SHOULD BE CONTINUED

Code club should be continued so that we can have the idea of games and its creation process. People can earn money by creating games and uploading on the internet, so we suggest the code club should be continued.

THANKS VERY MUCH FOR READING and LISTENING.

Strong group.