Christmas Coding and More from J2E
December 2016
J2Code
J2Code Visual is a block-editing program, similar to Scratch, Hopscotch, Tickle and many others.
Below are a few designs I coded in J2Visual. There's still a bit of debugging to do on the second 5 star pattern to get them pointing the right way. Maybe one of your pupils can do this?
Last year I set some of these as challenges to Y5 and 6 pupils at Parkstone and the enthusiasm was rather splendid.
Although we used J2Code, the challenges can be attempted with a variety of other software. See above for a few possibles.
Game Creating
Here is Amber's Snowflake Catching game and Jessica's version is here.
One thing we did learn was that if you code your game to use the arrow keys and then pop them on the web for others to play it causes confusion as you're trying to control a character and the browser assumes you're wanting to scroll.
So, lesson learned for this year, we'll use different keys.
Subscribers to J2E save their work in the usual fashion. If you're using the free version, use the 'Link' icon. You get.... a link and a QR code to point to your saved work.
Animated Card
More Free J2E activities
For more information about the J2E Primary Toolkit, follow this link, drop me an email or ring.
As a J2E approved Trainer I can obtain this for you at £599 rather than the published price of £749, or buy the toolkit and a day of support for £950- saving £200 on purchasing both at the full cost.
If you'd like a pre-Christmas Coding session with your pupils, I'm offering a half-day at £150 in a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sort of way.
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Email: paul@wrightict.co.uk
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