Join us today at 4pm Irish time for a new challenge!
We’re testing out your ability to switch it up this week, and we’ll be going live at 4pm today.
Today’s session @ 4pm
We’re going to start a super fun series today with Sensor Arcade!
I love this playground because it shows us what amazing capabilities we have in our hands with the iPad.
We start off writing a touch event handler to handle when and where a user puts their finger on the screen.
This is an intermediate playground, so it definitely helps if you’ve gone through the Everyone Can Code Puzzles lessons, first.
But if you’ve been following along with the Lights, Camera, Code playground or the Sonic Workshop sessions you should be well able for this.
Game-based learning
A huge motivation for working on the code in these next few sessions will be all about the games. We’ll write code to practice and then play our own games, using the different sensors on the iPad — the touch screen, microphone, light sensor in the camera — as input devices and controllers.
And the great thing about coding our own games is we can see and feel how our code affects the way the game is played.
I can’t wait to get cracking on this one. See you at 4pm!