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Creative Coding (2019)

Discover programming through art, animation, music and math. Collaborate with other campers as you bring amazing projects to life using visual programming. Create interactive greetings, experiment with sounds and musical notes, make your own comics, design characters and animate them, generate math art and build level-based games. No prior programming experience required.

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139 Activities

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Recommended for Ages 8+

Web iPad

No Prerequisites

Tynker Code Blocks

Tynker's visual code blocks are a great way for beginners to code, without needing to remember how to type syntax. By dragging and dropping code blocks together, young coders can produce vividly complex programs and games in our proprietary app, which includes support for graphics, sound, physics, and more.

What Kids Learn

  • Conditionals
  • Detect Conditionals
  • Drawing Editor
  • Platformer Automations
  • Platformer Basics
  • Platformer Controls
  • Simple Animation
  • Three Scene Structure
  • advanced animation
  • advanced costume handling
  • advanced math
  • advanced messaging
  • advanced motion
  • basic math
  • delays
  • detect conditions
  • direction and turning
  • fill color
  • functions
  • input/output
  • sequencing
  • simple conditionals
  • simple costume handling
  • simple drawing
  • simple events
  • simple loops
  • simple messaging
  • simple motion
  • simple sound playing
  • visibility

How Kids Learn with Tynker

Kids learn on their own with a guided, hands-on approach that individualizes the learning experience. Tynker's online courses provide a complete learning system for your child to master the fundamentals of programming. Tynker's visual programming language makes it easy to learn, and once kids gain proficiency, they can seamlessly transition to Javascript coding within the Tynker learning system. Enroll in one of our plans for unlimited play across all courses.

Game-Based Learning

Tynker's self-guided lessons break down coding concepts while solving puzzles and making cool apps.

Interactive Assessments

Quick practice quizzes and assessment tests evaluate a child's comprehension of subjects taught.

Captivating Topics

There's always something to learn with multiple subjects, projects, and coding languages available.

System Requirements

Online courses require a desktop computer, laptop computer, Chromebook, or Netbook with Internet connection and a Chrome (29+), Firefox (30+), Safari (7+), or Edge (20+) browser. No downloads required.

Introduction

Start coding with Tynker.

14 Activities:

  • What can you make?
  • Overview
  • Yummy Treat
  • Go Get It
  • Avoid the Rock
  • Repetition with Loops
  • Repeat the Pattern
  • Another Pattern
  • Sequenced Repetition
  • More Sequencing
  • Two Loops
  • Actors, Costumes, and Sound
  • Puppy Bark
  • Doggy Duo

Frame ­Based Animation

Use frame-based animation and make a whack-a-mole style game.

7 Activities:

  • Animation Concepts
  • Wake the Puppy
  • Morning Excitement
  • Hungry Puppy
  • Visibility Concepts
  • Strawberry Jam
  • Squishy Ants

Sounds and Music

In this lesson you will learn to use Actors, Costumes and sounds to create a scene.

5 Activities:

  • Introduction
  • Create a Scene
  • Switch Action
  • Click to Eat
  • Your First Project

Drums and Instruments

Create your own music, drum set and band using synthesized music!

5 Activities:

  • Beatboxing Gnomes
  • Whistling Gnomes
  • Set the Tempo
  • Magic Drum Set
  • Create a band

Character Rigs and Animation

Animate Tynker Character Studio Actors

5 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Animate the Character
  • Say Hello
  • Simon Says
  • Knock-Knock Joke

Create a Scene

Use XY coordinates, actor rotation, and pointing to make a simple 1-scene story.

7 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Actors to Your Mark
  • Action!
  • Chocolate Cannon
  • Coordinate Craze
  • Jump Scare!
  • Boss Break In

Animation

Animate Actors using costumes, loops and wait blocks.

4 Activities:

  • Make the Dragon Eat
  • Make the Dragon Walk
  • Get the Fireflies
  • The Flying Dragon

Storytelling

Create a narrated story using the say and wait blocks.

7 Activities:

  • Introduction
  • The Duel
  • Excited Conversation
  • Finish the Story
  • Simon Says
  • A Knock-Knock Joke
  • Story Creator

Custom Characters

Program, animate and customize characters using Tynker's Character Creator.

6 Activities:

  • Intro Video
  • Concepts
  • Frame Based Animation
  • Built-in Animation
  • Gather the Armor
  • Alien Adventure Game

Motion

Move, turn and use the mouse. Animate a Conga Line!

6 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • All Seeing Eye
  • Running Laps
  • Fetch
  • Conga Line
  • Dunkmaster

Advanced Motion

Make an Actor move with key presses.

7 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Rolling Eyes
  • Puppy Power
  • Racecar
  • Soaring Strawberry
  • A Maze-ing Puppy
  • Chocolate Tank

Drawing with Colors

Program Actors to move and draw using the pen tool.

5 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Undersea Trails 1
  • Undersea Trails 2
  • Color Match
  • Make Your Own Paint Program

Drawing Patterns

Create colorful drawings by changing the pen color and using multiple Actors.

4 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Rainbow Fish 1
  • Rainbow Fish 2
  • Collect the Treasures

Drawing Puzzles

Put your drawing skills to the test! Make the most awesome programmatic drawing!

9 Activities:

  • Introduction to Drawing
  • Circle
  • Tambourine
  • Hexagonal Frame
  • Venn Diagram
  • What is the coolest pattern you can make?
  • Snowflake
  • Circle Art
  • Honeycomb

Messaging

Program buttons using send and receive messages.

7 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Synchronized Celebration
  • Chocolate Covered
  • Combat Training 1
  • Approach the Boss
  • Combat Training 2
  • Attack

Hitting the Mark

Combine messaging, motion and animation to make a story.

7 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Master Storyteller
  • Story Creator
  • Strawberry Rampage
  • Run Away
  • Lab Scene
  • Scene Based Story

Create Levels

Quickly create detailed multi-level game worlds using Tynker's Level Editor.

3 Activities:

  • Selector
  • Datamines
  • Level Editor

Challenge: Top Down Game Design

Awesome games for awesome coders.

2 Activities:

  • Concepts: Top Down Game Design
  • Challenge: Top Down Game Design

Challenge: Whack-a-Goblin

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Whack-a-Goblin

Dynamic Storytelling

Make decisions with code; program a story with multiple endings.

4 Activities:

  • Asking and Deciding
  • Laser Pointer
  • Puppy Training
  • Choose Your Own Adventure

Advanced Animation

Speed up animations, make objects shrink, grow, or rotate.

5 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Time Lord
  • Twist and Shout
  • Gigantify
  • Dance-Off

Custom Adventure Generator

Use the ask and answer code blocks to tell dynamic adventure stories.

4 Activities:

  • Password Please
  • Teleporting Ghost
  • Seashell Rush
  • Interactive Adventure

2 Player Games

Learn to make a 2 player space battle game.

5 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Create Player One
  • Create Player Two
  • Destroy the Enemy Invaders
  • Create Your Own Battle Scene

Teen Dance Party

Learn how to use cool dance moves with the new Teen character rig!

2 Activities:

  • Teen Dance Party
  • Make your own!

Touchdown

Use all the techniques you've learned to create a football animation!

1 Activity:

  • Touchdown

Stealthy Thief

Create a multi-level obstacle game!

1 Activity:

  • Stealthy Thief

Field Runner

Create a Frogger-style obstacle game!

1 Activity:

  • Field Runner

Level Editor

Use the Level Editor tool to build a multi-level platformer game!

2 Activities:

  • Level Editor Introduction
  • Level Editor

Challenge: Brazen Invasion

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Brazen Invasion

Challenge: Doom Racer

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Doom Racer

Challenge: Brick Breaker

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Brick Breaker

Conditionals

Detect Conditionals

Drawing Editor

Platformer Automations

Platformer Basics

Platformer Controls

Simple Animation

Three Scene Structure

advanced animation

advanced costume handling

advanced math

advanced messaging

advanced motion

basic math

delays

detect conditions

direction and turning

fill color

functions

input/output

sequencing

simple conditionals

simple costume handling

simple drawing

simple events

simple loops

simple messaging

simple motion

simple sound playing

visibility

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