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Coding Tutorial Showcase

This week I'm celebrating two year five students who have been learning to code with me using the programming language Scratch. L started recently whilst E (Mr_Man2257) has been developing his skills for six months. All games are playable through the links provided below.

I currently have sessions available for online primary tuition in English, Maths, Science and Coding both in the evening and daytime. Please contact me for further information.

This 3D arcade game features sprite scaling, colour cycling and parallax scrolling to create an exciting feeling of movement and action!


Based on Pac-Man, in this maze game you have to collect the diamonds and avoid the green robot. The game uses the clone tool, "rubber stamping" the walls and diamonds in an invisible grid using algebra and coordinates.



This driving simulator tests your reaction skills to avoid crashing into the cars and potholes! The game creates an illusion of movement by scrolling the trees and obstacles down the screen whilst the car stays at the bottom of the screen.


This shooting game challenges you to fire spiky stars at balloons to pop them. A simple introduction to the basics of moving sprites and coding collision detection.


This adventure game is inspired by The Legend of Zelda. The main character solves problems to collect objects which combine to build a WWII Anderson Shelter. The game requires multiple variables to track what objects have been collected and track movement of the character between screens.

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