Intermediate Class Course Material


These slides and the video capture the key ideas that are covered in the class. These are designed to be self-contained. We strongly recommend that parents and students review these slides/video and try out the small code snippets before and while attempting the independent activity for the class.

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Class 1 – Recap of Beginner course

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes


Class 2 – Sprite plays Space War

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes , Class Project

Create a Space War game using Scratch Program. Concepts covered –

  • Creation of clones
  • Programming of clones
  • Deletion of clones

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Space War game using Scratch Program.

Common Mistakes

See the video to make sure you avoid common problems in Space War game.

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Class 3 – Color Wheel game

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes, Class Project

This simple yet elegant game is fun to play. It also nicely illustrates programming concepts of cloning, loops, random numbers etc.

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a colorwheel game.

Please see this video to avoid common problems while designing colorwheel game.

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Class 4 – Chrome Dino Game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Concepts covered include –

  • Cloning
  • Broadcasting
  • Random numbers
  • Loops

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a simple Chrome Dino game using Scratch Program.

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Class 5 – Find the Marble Game

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes , Class Project

Concepts Covered:

  1. Sequencing with Broadcast
  2. Broadcast and Wait
  3. Systematic development of an involved programming logic.

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Common Problems

Students often run into a problem where the cups do not shuffle properly. Please refer to this video to see how to fix this.

Enhancement

An enhanced version of this project where starting position is random, game gets harder as it proceeds and so on.

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Class 6 Mid Term Revision and Quiz

Class Material (Live Quiz)

Key Learning Objectives

  1. Revise the concepts covered so far with an interactive quiz.  
  2. Provide students a chance to consolidate their learning and build an independent project of their choice.

Class 7 – Whack a Mole Game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Create a Whack a Mole game the Scratch platform. This video discusses development of Whack a Mole game. Important concepts covered are costumes, usage of layers and cloning and nested loop.

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Whack a Mole game

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Class 8 – Brick Breaker game

CLASS MATERIAL

Class Notes, Class Project

In this video we develop a simple brick breaker game. The concepts covered are cloning, broadcasting, nested loops and direction.

INdependent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Brick Breaker Game

Please see this video to avoid common problems while designing Brick Breaker game.

The nested loop logic can be modified to give us interesting brick patterns, as shown in this video.

For a general calculation for angle of bounce, see this.

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Class 9 – Knife Game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Knife Game

Common Problem

This video discusses some common problems that students sometimes face with throwing knives.

Enhancements

Falling Knives Animation, Animation Between Levels

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Class 10 – Highway Dash Game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Highway Dash Game.

Please see this video to avoid common problems while designing Highway Dash game.

Enhancements

Accident Animation Overtaking Cars Effect

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Class 11 Revision and Quiz

Class Material (Live Quiz)

Key Learning Objectives

  1. Revise the concepts covered so far with an interactive quiz.  
  2. Provide students a chance to consolidate their learning.

Independent Activity

Prepare for the project showcase.


Class 12 Project Showcase


Guidelines for Project Showcase Activity

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