![]() ![]() So I suggested that first she would need an idea for a setting for the game. This is the kind of thing she had in mind when she, in the evening over dinner, asked me whether we could make a game. Over the last few days, Sophie had been playing Midnight Mansion, a platform/side scroller game. So here is my (hopefully continuing) diary of coding with my daughter… (Our results, live demo and source code, are at the bottom.) ![]() Afterwards, I thought it might be interesting to try to record the process we’re going through - see what happens. So I told Sophie that we’d start making a game tomorrow. I have often wondered how low in age you could take Greenfoot. I have used Greenfoot with kids (mostly about 15 years old), but more often I do presentations and workshops for teachers. Research into programming education, tool design, etc. So far, that has all been part of my research work. I am a computer scientist, and one of our projects is Greenfoot – a programming environment designed to teach kids (and older students) to code with Java. Now, there’s a challenge, if I ever saw one. (Well, only a few weeks away from being ten – at this age, a year still matters.) She has never written any code before. Yesterday, my daughter Sophie asked me to show her how to write a computer game. Some of the Greenfoot code shown can be written more easily in newer versions of Greenfoot, using newer API methods.) (Note: This post is more than 10 years old. Update: Part II, Part III and Part IV of this story are available now. First party of a journey of writing a Doctor Who video game in Java with my 9-year-old daughter. ![]()
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