Coding with Scratch – Create Fantastic Driving Games

Max Wainewright

abr 2022 · In Easy Steps Limited

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A new title in The QuestKids children’s series that is designed to make learning fun for children.

Coding with Scratch – Create Fantastic Driving Games will take you from Scratch basics through to creating your own fantastic driving games in easy steps. Each game comes with challenges to take you to the next level of coding. Even includes mods to make your games more exciting. Have fun and amaze your friends and family!

·        You’ll learn how to:

·        Use code to make a series of driving games including parking, racing, scrolling and two-player games.

·        Design your own game levels, cars and tracks.

·        Use variables to keep the score and to store the speed in your games.

·        Add sounds and create your own code blocks and functions.

To create the games in this book, children will need a desktop computer or a laptop. The games require a proper keyboard so will not work well on a tablet or iPad. It is recommended that children should be supervised when using the internet, especially when using a new website.

Table of Contents:

1.      Coding with Scratch

2.      Track Driver

3.      Two-player Racer

4.      Street Racer

5.      Snowmobile Slalom

6.      Big Track Racer

7.      Desert Drifter

8.      Formula Racer

9.      Motorcross Rider

10.  Parking Star

11.  3D Driver

12.  Game Challenges: Monster Truck

13.  Game Challenges: 3D Motorbike Racer

14.  Game Mods

15.  Glossary

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Max Wainewright is an experienced computing teacher and has taught in the UK and in Singapore. Max has worked with national government agencies and local councils to support and inspect technology in schools. He teaches coding part-time in a London primary school, and runs an innovation group supporting other local schools. Max has a Computer Science degree and has significant experience of working in the EdTech industry. He co-founded one of the most successful small UK EdTech companies, and developed award-winning software that has been used by over 90% of UK primary schools. He has provided his expertise as an Educational Software consultant for major companies including Discovery and LEGO. Max has written dozens of books teaching kids to code. Many of these are top-sellers, reaching 100,000s of kids, and have been translated into over 20 languages.