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Creative Coding Studio (2019)

Discover programming through art, music, and math. Collaborate with other campers as you plan and build amazing projects 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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16 Lessons
63 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

  • advanced math
  • delays
  • direction and turning
  • fill color
  • functions
  • sequencing
  • simple drawing
  • simple loops

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.

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

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

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

Challenge: Whack-a-Goblin

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Whack-a-Goblin

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

Challenge: Brazen Invasion

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Brazen Invasion

Create Levels

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

3 Activities:

  • Selector
  • Datamines
  • Level Editor

Challenge: Doom Racer

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Doom Racer

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

Challenge: Top Down Game Design

Awesome games for awesome coders.

2 Activities:

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

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

Challenge: Brick Breaker

Awesome games for awesome coders.

1 Activity:

  • Challenge: Brick Breaker

advanced math

delays

direction and turning

fill color

functions

sequencing

simple drawing

simple loops

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