Year 4 Robins have completed their two player car racing games in Scratch.

The children have shown some fantastic understanding of the event and motion blocks, some even using variables to count each lap.

Controls
Press spacebar key to start the game.

Player 1 controls are – Up arrow, Down arrow, Left arrow and Right arrow keys.
Player 2 controls are – W, A, S, D keys to move the car.

Try some of their games below.

Anastasya

Dalila

Ewan

Nadine

Miranda and Khaltum

During Computing, Year 4 Robins have been creating two player car racing games in Scratch.

First the children had to create a racing track using the paint tool. They then inserted two car sprites for player 1 and player 2. Once the cars were inserted, the children started to program each car. The important thing was to use the motion blocks and assign keys to move the cars around. They also had to think about the start coordinates for when a car touches the red fence, it took the player back to the start of the game.

The children will finish off by adding variables, which will be used to score each time a car completes a lap.

Robins are close to finishing their games and we’ll have a few examples on our blog next week.

During Computing with Mr Baddhan today, Robins used an iPad app called Hopscotch, where they learned how to program characters to perform an action using instruction blocks.

The app allows children to insert various programming blocks including motion, drawing and repetition.

Mr Baddhan asked the children to build a script to do the following:

Year 4 Robins have today been continuing their understanding of programming by building algorithms with variables and If, Do statements.

The children use a website called ‘Code for Life’ to program a van to drive on a road but wait at traffic lights if the red light appears and move forward if the traffic light is showing green.

Robins were asked to use the least amount of blocks as possible to ensure they get a higher score at the end of the challenge. Some children impressed with Mr Baddhan with their debugging and programming skills.

Robins class enjoyed working with Mr Baddhan this afternoon creating an Etch a Sketch game. They were shown how to program their chosen sprites to use the pen up and down blocks. They were asked to create two shapes; a square and a rectangle.

Mr Baddhan also set a challenge, he asked some children to create an instruction screen which explains users how to play the game. They were shown how to do this by using the switch backdrop block.

Ava and Miranda’s Etch a Sketch

Ishmael’s Etch a Sketch