Learn to Code – with Pacman and Pixelart

• What is coding all about? Try the hour of code challenge
• What is a code?
• Getting started with webmaking and HTML
• The Secret Shapes design game – can you programme your friends?
• Introduction to Processing – make a nametag
• Understanding shapes and coordinates
• Colours in RGB
• Mzansi messages – shapes, colours and text
• Variables – custom-made Pacman
• Functions
• If statement
• Pacman in functions
  
• Pacman portraits
• Keypress interactions – Pacman moves around.
• Making Pacman move around – over background images.
• Using a ‘for’ loop to create a pattern.
• Nesting loops to fill an area with a pattern.
• Using a pixel array and for loop to celebrate African gamers on Africa Day.
• Design your own pixel art characters for a Pacman mod.
• Make an animated photo.
• Create a pixel art animation.
• A Pacman game mod in Processing by Robin, age 12.
• Let’s play the Khazatown Blues – by Lisa, Talita, Onke, Vuyani, Ludwe and Lwazi.