LiveCode CoderDojo

Last month, CoderDojo members Tom, Hannah, Rory, and Andrew took part in the first ‘CoderDojo LiveCode’ workshop at RunRev offices in Edinburgh.

Tom reports on their experience:

‘LiveCode’ is a language that is often used for beginners as the phrases used to program things are very similar to English. It can be very easy to progress once you have managed to start it as it is very visual and logic.

What is very different about Live Code is that it is very easy to create a professional result in a limited amount of time as programming is almost like talking English. And as the language is very similar to English, experienced and amateur alike can create the remarkable and quality result each time.

Hannah commented that ‘Live Code is something where if you are a beginner to programming and you want to make something like a game, it is easy to start with. It is a good way to get people into programming and technology.’

I think Live Code is a great way to program as you can focus on your creative side rather than worrying too much about how to technically develop a game.

During Live Code in Edinburgh, we were walked-through how to create the beginning of a ‘Balloon Adventure’ game where you would fly through the air collecting points and avoiding obstacles. After we were showed how to do this, we were free to develop the game in our own way, for example, by adding flying birds, other balloons, but also just changing some simple things like the font, colour and size of the start button.

Tom
Young Digital Maker at Edinburgh CoderDojo