Coding School
An Aussie school is making a name for itself in the app world. Students from Aberfoyle Park High School have been designing and developing their own apps. Their school's even become the first in the country to be registered as a developer under its own name.
LUKE: This is my game Goblin Rush and the aim of the game is to place cannons to shoot little green goblins as they run past.
JASPER: My game is Boxscape and the idea is to get as many points as you can. You gain points by dodging orange rectangles.
GEORGIA: My game's name is Space Shooter. It's a game where you tilt your screen to control a spaceship and you have to shoot the asteroids.
These are just some of the games the guys from Aberfoyle Park High School have created all thanks to coding!
Twice a week they get together at lunchtime for a special coding workshop. It's been running for three years.
RYAN: Coding is using different letters or blocks depending what type of code you're using to make something happen on a digital object.
LEO: It's really enjoyable, it's my first time doing it this year and it's really something different.
GEORGIA Coding can be a bit hard to start off with but it gets easier.
They code on tablets using a coding language called python on a app called pythonista.
CHRIS ROBINSON, TEACHER: Python is a really easy to understand coding language and it allows them to use their iPads to create their own games.
They need to work as a team to design entertaining and challenging games. And once they're happy with their creation, they give their finished code to their teacher who sends it through to an app store. So far, the school's got 7 games registered that anyone around the world can play. And it's now the first school in the country to be registered as a developer under its own name!
REPORTER: So Amber, can you teach me how to code?
AMBER: Yeah sure, I'll show you how to add the turtle or whatever you want to the screen and then I'll show you how to set its position and how to actually add it to the screen. You just simply write self.turtle=SpiteNode
REPORTER: Okay cool, alright so here so I can just copy and paste at the top and change what I want.
AMBER: Then if you go to the plus up here.
REPORTER: So I find, so if I wanna pick Mr cool alien here.
AMBER So now you hit the play button.
REPORTER: Ah, there's my alien!
These guys are hoping to use the skills they've learned here to get a great job in the future.
RYAN: With all the new technology and robots coming out, I feel like coding is going to be an important aspect in the future so I wanna use it to get a job and help me make a financial balance.
GEORIGIA: I'd really like to get a job doing this kind of thing one day. I think it would be a really fun experience.
TYLER: I'm definitely hoping to make this work in the real world especially since I'm very interested in html and I hope to code websites as well as games 'cause I heard you can make quite a buck out of that!
- Natasha Thiele | Reporter
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