Christmas Coding and More from J2E
December 2015
J2Code
J2Code Visual is a block-editing program, similar to Scratch, Hopscotch, Tynker 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?
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 titles.
Game Creating
Here is Amber's Snowflake Catching game.
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, we'll be editing these games to use different keys to make for a more satisfying experience. So please, don't blame the pupils for this. I'll take the rap on this one! Live and learn and all that. :)
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.
And if you'd like a pre-Christmas Coding session with your pupils, I'm offering a half-day at £125 in a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sort of way!
WrightICT
Email: paul@wrightict.co.uk
Website: www.wrightict.co.uk
Phone: 07917160770
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