Coding and Game Development - Part 2 | Small Online Class for Ages 7-11

Coding and Game Development - Part 2

This 8-week course is designed to follow my first class — Intro to Coding and Game Development. Students will build on the skills learned there with new tools, open-ended problems, and more game development.

Lily Gentner

7 total reviews for this teacher

New class

60 minutes

per class

Once per week

over 8 weeks

7-11

year olds

1-3

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a “Multi-Day” course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries

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Jun 8 - Jul 27 (8 weeks)

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Description

Class Experience

This 8 week course is designed for students ages 7 to 12 who have completed the Intro to Coding and Game Development class. Each week will consist of a one-hour live, online lesson and a few independent practice exercises to reinforce new concepts.

In this class, students will build on the skills they learned in the last class, and work towards solving more open-ended problems, applying more advanced tools, and adding more complex functionality to their game. By the end of these 8 weeks,...

- Apply the coding tools taught in Part 1 to appropriately challenging problems
- Practice and Develop Problem- Solving Skills
- Gain confidence and experience with solving problems that are difficult or confusing at first glance
- Give students additional tools to implement the features they imagine for their personal projects and games

After each lesson I will send out a PDF with the next set of practice problems. I will also encourage students to take some extra time, outside of class, to apply each lesson to their personal game. In total I would expect this to take less than 1 hour per week, though I'm happy to suggest additional self-guided activities if a student is interested.

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:Codepen

1 hour per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.

To make setup as easy as possible, we will continue using Codepen for writing and running code.

Teacher

Lily Gentner

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

Uber Software Engineer + Harvard Grad teaching coding, logic, and problem solving through game development

7 total reviews

11 completed classes

About Me

I studied Statistics and Computer Science at Harvard University before working at Uber and Square as a software engineer for over 4 years. Last year, I shifted my focus to teaching because I wanted to help kids develop the thinking skills and...