Introduction to Coding for Game Development
Free Summer Camp: Introduction to Coding for Game Development
This summer the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service is offering a 3-week Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy (ASEA) online summer camp, Introduction to Coding for Game Development for high school students grades 9-11 focusing on computational literacy via game design.
This program is intended to help promote computational literacy for students in Ohio’s Appalachian counties.
All 6 sessions meetings will be held online and students will be tasked with an extended learning activity between sessions. Limit of 12 students.
Students will:
• Learn computational thinking skills
• Play with coding syntax in two different coding languages: Scratch and Python
• Gain confidence in their independent-learning capabilities
All lessons will be posted FREE on the upon the conclusion of the camp!
Email Jennifer Bowman with questions.
Schedule
All sessions meet from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
| Week 1 | |
| June 5 | Session 1: Build a Jumping Game using Scratch |
| Scratch coding, conditional statements and loops | |
| June 8 | Session 2: Build a Platformer Game using Scratch |
| Variables and objects | |
| Week 2 | |
| June 12 | Session 3: Build a Fighting Game using Scratch |
| Variables and objects | |
| June 15 | Session 4: Build a Text-Based Game using Python |
| Python file structure, syntax, commenting code | |
| Week 3 | |
| June 19 | Session 5: Build a Drawing Game using Python |
| Python libraries (Pygame, etc.) and game loop | |
| June 22 | Session 6: Build a Breakout Game using Python |
| Object-Oriented Programming and game physics |
Instructors and Co-facilitators
Dustin Goetz
Instructor
Southeast Ohio Native! Ph.D. Candidate, U.C. Santa Barbra, Mechanical Engineering
Jen Bowman
Co-Facilitor
Director of Environmental Programs, 91̽»¨â€™s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy
Elkan Kim
Co-Facilitor
Senior IT Project Manager and Computer Software Engineer, 91̽»¨â€™s Voinovich School of Leadership and
Public Service, Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy
Sponsors
Funding supporting the ASEA platform and development of the lesson materials are in part from: AEP Fund of the Columbus Foundation, PORTSfuture Program funded by DOE EM PPPO, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and Voinovich School Appalachian New Economy Partnership