Seattle Coder Dojo Exercises
Teachers: Feel free to use anything you find here in your own Scratch classes.
If you have questions or comments, send me email at michaeladamkatz at yahoo dot com.



Older Projects Below Here

2014
Beginning exercises. Draw with the pen. Use repeat loops.
Learn about variables.
Learn about functions and parameters.
Program a maze game. (remix to make your changes)
More for beginners: play with different blocks of code!
Make a flapping bird game! (remix to make your changes)
Make a movie adventure using these phrases...
Learn about cloning with the Ghost Busterball project!
Learn about probability, loops, and variables with simulations!
Another movie challenge: Alice in Scratchland!
DojoMan: Our version of PacMan, which uses everything we've learned so far: key handling, repeat, if/then, broadcast, variables, clones, random, lists. Remix it. Study it. Present it. Finish it. Live it.
Mother's Day!
History!
15 Puzzle (learn about lists! you'll be glad you did!)
Cat Doodle -- a fun place to start
Recursion!
Bumper Pool/Pinball game -- can you help turn it into a complete game?
Tic Tac Toe
Dog Days Temperature Simulator
Galaxy Explorer
Optical Illusions -- can you make them in Scratch?

Rube Goldberg Mouse Trap -- learning about broadcast/receive (August 9, 2014 at Amazon)

Typing Synergy (keyboard skills) (August 16, 2014 at DigiPen)

Idiom Animations (August 23, 2014 at Amazon)

Q*bert (September 13, September 20, September 27, and October 4, 2014 at Amazon)

Plants vs. Zombies (October 2014 at Amazon)

Angry Turkeys (November 2014 at Amazon)

Snowflakes (December 2014 at Amazon)

2015

Abstraction with functions, inputs, and variables (January 10, 2015 at Amazon)

Sokoban and Pengo (January 2015 at Amazon)

Charlie Brown Super Bowl (January 31, 2015 at Amazon)

Valentine Memory Match (February 7, 2015 at Amazon)

A-maze-ing Programming (February 21, 2015 at Amazon)

Maze Game Maker (February 28, 2015 at Amazon)

Bouncy Circle Game (March 14 -- Pi Day! -- 2015 at Amazon)

Rabbit Runner (March 21 & 28 -- first week of spring! -- 2015 at Amazon)

Hangman (April 4, 2015 at Amazon)

Space Rendezvous (April 11 and April 18, 2015 at Amazon)

Space Invaders (April 25, 2015 at Amazon)

Magic Mother's Day Card (May 2 and May 9, 2015 at Amazon)

Lunar Lander (May 16 and May 30, 2015 at Amazon)

Lip Syncing (May 30, 2015 at Amazon)

Centipede (June 13, 2015 at Amazon)

Game of Life (June 27, 2015 at Amazon)

Abstraction with functions, inputs, and variables (July 10, 2015 at Amazon)

Trivia Maze (August 22, 2015 at Amazon)

Arrows, Boxes, and 2048 (Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, 2015 at Amazon)

Qbert starter project and challenges (Oct. 10, 2015 at Amazon)

Qbert final game challenges (Oct. 17, 2015 at Amazon)

Candy Runner (Oct. 24 and 31, 2015 at Amazon)
Challenges
  1. Draw the player in your Halloween costume.
  2. Make more/better candy drawings.
  3. Use the sounds in the bully, haunted house, and witch.
  4. Make it so touching a witch hides the witch and loses some candy.
  5. Make it so touching a black cat (but not a house) hides the cat and loses some candy.
  6. Make it so pressing the 'd' key when you are touching a house rings the doorbell and gives you more candy.
  7. Make it so hitting a bully with a heart makes him friendlier and gives points. A friendly bully only steals your candy and doesn't end the game.
  8. Make it so hitting a bully with another heart makes him even friendlier and gives points. A friendlier bully doesn't even steal your candy.
  9. Make it so the player has a limited number of jumps. Getting candy gives you more jumps.

The Amazing Cat and Mouse Game (November 7, 2015 at Amazon)
Project guide: CatAndMouse.pdf

Game Ideas
  1. Cat gets a point each time it touches a mouse.
  2. When cat touches a mouse, the mouse clone deletes. How quickly can you get all the mice?
  3. Cat has to get to goal without touching a mouse. When it touches a mouse it goes back to the start.
  4. Mice shoot spit-ball at the cat.
  5. Cat shoots spit-ball at the mice.

Angry Turkeys: The Sequel (November 21 and December 5, 2015 at Amazon)
Starter project (open and click Remix): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/88370527/#editor

Ideas
  1. Customize the background or the "objects"
  2. Make an intro screen
  3. Add scoring
  4. Set up more than one level

Optical Illusions (January 9, 2016)

Penguin Battle (January 29, 2016)

Crazy Cat Claws (February 6, 2016)


Advanced Scratch (February 6, 2016)


Advanced Scratch (February 20, 2016)


Crazy Cat Claws (February 6 and February 20, 2016)



Beginning Scratch (March 26, 2016)
Feline Fighters



Advanced Scratch (March 26, 2016)