Club Details

Cypher is welcoming new and returning students to our Autumn 2018 club! All students will get to build fun and interactive projects, developing weekly projects that will allow students to build up their knowledge and experience of programming concepts. As students progress through the course, they will build their own characters, objects, backgrounds and games. 

Returning students will be moving forward with course progression on to level 2 or 3 of the course, developing skills in sequencing, pattern recognition, loops, and conditional logic to create programs. They will also create scenes using coding, adding sounds and music, and using keyboard controls to drive their programs; learning about motion, broadcasting messages, and adding special effects.

Each session will also include 10 minutes of touch typing exercises to assist students with additional basic computer skills training.

LEARNING OUTCOMES – Level 1

• Using block-based coding via Tynker

• Understanding sprites and backgrounds

• Learning all the different types of code blocks

• Building up knowledge of core programming concepts

• Touch typing and computer skills training

LEARNING OUTCOMES – Level 2 & 3

• Create interactive scenes with actors, scenes and music

• Design animations using loops

• Program motion along x- and y-axes

• Build algorithms using conditional logic

• Understanding scripts running in parallel

• Program music using notes, tempo and instruments

• Create different scenarios and effects in games

• Progressing of troubleshooting and debugging simple programs

• Touch typing and computer skills training

EXTRA - ADVANCED - Level 4

• Students work on text-based coding language - Python.