Improving code?

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at some older resources – programs that were originally written in good old Scratch 1.4 (seems like a LONG time ago!). These would actually work, as written, in Scratch 3, but given that our current group of coders has actually completed their ‘beginner’ phase, I thought … Read more

Day 2

So today we took on the near-infamous ‘Astro-Cat’. This one ALWAYS give us problems, usually to do with the custom sprites. So we used our online Scratch Studio to upload a version that has the sprites and the background, without the Scratch Blocks. Brian forgot to remove the blocks from the background, though, so the … Read more

Press ‘Start’…

At time of writing (7th April 2020), this website is brand new. The World is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our CoderDojo in Mullingar hasn’t hosted a session for several weeks. Schools are closed for at least another 2 weeks – right about now is usually when they’d be closed anyway for … Read more