Graphical Programming

Lesson 1: Coordinates, Colours and Shapes
9 Activities
Demo: 01.01d Sketch
Demo: 01.02d Game
Demo: 01.03d Animation
Coding Task: 01.01 Functions
Coding Task: 01.02 Colour Me In!
Worksheet: 01.03 Coordinates
Coding Task: 01.03 Coordinates
Coding Task: 01.04 Code Your House
Coding Task: 01.05 Free Sketch!
Lesson 2: Animation
6 Activities
Worksheet: 02.01 Run, Run, Run!
Demo: 02.01d Circle Animation
Demo: 02.02d while Circle Animation
Coding Task: 02.02 My First Coded Animation!
Coding Task: 02.03 Bye Bye Sunshine
Coding Task: 02.04 Scurry Mr Mouse!
Lesson 3: Functions
6 Activities
Demo: 03.01d Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot
Coding Task: 03.01 Tweet, Tweet!
Demo: 03.02d One Step at a Time
Coding Task: 03.02 Do you want to draw a snowman?
Demo: 03.03d Grow an Orchard
Coding Task: 03.03 Move it, snowman
Lesson 4: for Loops
8 Activities
Coding Task: 04.01 Time is Ticking!
Demo: 04.02 Drawing Multiple Circles
Coding Task: 04.02 Under the sea
Demo: 04.03 Random Level Generation
Coding Task: 04.03 My first level generator
Demo: 04.04 Alien Evasion
Demo: 04.05 Space Hunter
Demo: 04.06 Catch the Ball
Lesson 5: Object Oriented Programming
7 Activities
Demo: 05.01 A Simple Ball Animation
Coding Task: 05.01 Kickin’ Goals
Demo: 05.02 Ball Object Animation
Coding Task: 05.02 Penalty Kick
Demo: 05.03 Bouncing DVD Logo
Demo: 05.04 Bouncing Ball
Coding Task: 05.03 Bouncing around the box!
Lesson 6: Key Presses and Collision Detection
6 Activities
Demo: 06.01 Bouncy Duck
Coding Task: 06.01 The Farmyard
Demo: 06.02 Butter Fly
Coding Task: 06.02 Subsonic the Hedgehog
Demo: 06.03 Bounding Boxes
Coding Task: 06.03 Subsonic – The Game
Lesson 7: Building Your Game
5 Activities
Coding Task: 07.01 SuperstarClothing Prototype
Demo: 07.01 Alien Evasion
Demo: 07.02 Space Hunter
Demo: 07.03 Catch the Ball
Demo: 07.04 Improved Sub-Sonic the Hedgehog
Lesson 8: Continuing Your Game
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Lesson 6: Key Presses and Collision Detection

Graphical Programming Lesson 6: Key Presses and Collision Detection

This lesson introduces keyboard controls and collision detection for the sprites we were creating in Lesson 5.

To get started, watch the video above. You can find the slides at one of the links below, either as Google Slides or as a Microsoft PowerPoint download.

Google Slides
Microsoft PowerPoint

Now, complete the activities below.

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