CoderDojo Nano: Make Your Own Game: Create With Code

by Scholastic Inc.

Children will learn everything--from creating a game world to animating characters to determining the physics of movement within the game. Each concept is illustrated with a screenshot to make checking easy, and incredible pixel art from Army of Trolls makes this look like no other coding book.

Coder Dojo Make Your Own Game is the perfect first step that kids can take toward game development.

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Genres: Web

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2018

About the author

For more than 100 years, Scholastic has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children's books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media.

Reviews

[Grant Nemzek · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm an adult, but I love using kid's JavaScript books to learn programming. Too many adult books go too fast and assume you know more than you actually do. This book is great to learn how to create a fun game and, even more important, it actually works! I can't tell you how many tutorial books I've gone through that are already out of date and don't work anymore.

If you get stuck, the full code can be found at: https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book...

I found it useful to save the full code as it's own file, and open up that file and my game file in Visual Studio Code. From there, I was able to compare both files, and could more easily find my mistakes (99% of the time it's a spelling error for me!).

Highly recommend this book for anyone looking to get more into JavaScript or game development, no matter their age.