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Set: Windows Programming and Game Programming Year Course for 4th - 8th Grades (KidCoder Series) (Book/ Paperback)

Product Overview

The KidCoder: Year Pack Textbook Kit includes the textbook kits for both KidCoder: Windows Programming and our popular second-semester KidCoder: Game Programming course.

Textbook Kits contain the printed Student Textbook and accompanying CD with Solution Guide, activity solutions, instructional documents, etc.

Windows Programming

Your student does not need to know anything about computer programming prior to this course, We start from the ground up and build all necessary programming skills. Students just need some typical computer usage skills, a computer and an eagerness to learn!

Topics covered:

Brief introduction to computer hardware, software, and programming history
Introduction to the Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express development environment
Managing different types of data such as numbers and text
Learning how to make decisions about program flow
Obtaining and validating user input
Working with numbers and math operations
Working with strings (text)
Learning how to debug (find errors in) your code
Learning how to write loops to execute sections of code many times
Working with arrays (sets of data)
Learning how to publish your programs to other computers
Putting it all together -- write a simple graphical game!

Game Programming

This fun course will teach students how to create games with the Visual Basic programming language. Students will actively participate in the coding of several different games while learning game programming techniques.

Topics Covered:

Game design concepts
Drawing shapes on the screen
Responding to keyboard clicks and mouse movements
Displaying and animating images
Object position, movement and acceleration
Collision detection
Playing music and creating sound effects
Artificial "game" intelligence
Saving and loading games
Game Physics
Printing screens to the printer

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