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Sunday 14 October 2012

Creative Computing Club - October 9th 2012

After a few teething problems with moving in to the new venue (i.e. setting up software, accounts all that kind of stuff) fortunately we have got down to some programming, we are a much bigger group now so it is both tricky and nice to take on the new challenge of delivering such technical sessions to a larger group. (see photo)

We are making a top down shooter kind of like a generic tanks game, but some of the students have come up with some very nice alternatives, we have a virus vs. bacteria type game, zombie apocalypse and a few airplane games too.

It is a good mix of different skill levels and ages, the youngest being 10 oldest being 15, some have loads of programming experience some of them none at all.

It was also nice to finally have everyone on the same page, and have everyone working on their own separate game but at the same time helping each other.

I got to see another one of those moments, when you see a student see his or her work come to life and start moving around the screen, they often take more ownership and more pride in their work. It's great and we have a lot more to come.

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Donations and Creative Computing Club Sponsors

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Please consider donating to help fund this project, even small amounts go a long way to help change these kids lives and their understanding of technology.

Company Sponsors

I am truly pleased to announce that YoYo Games have sponsored the club by providing copies of their amazing Game Maker and Game Maker HTML5 software. Having access to this excellent software not only means we can make great games but share them with the world. Thank you so much to all the staff at YoYo Games for making this possible.

We are also very pleased to announce that O'Reilly have offered assistance by way of some of their instructional books you can check out their full catalog of books here. O'Reilly have a great reputation with things like the Maker Faire (they also run a Maker Faire in the UK too) so we are truly grateful for their help and support through their excellent resources.

It is a huge honor to have the support of Young Rewired State not only do they run amazing events to encourage young people to code and hack data for good, they were in part inspiration for me to set up this group. The fun and the comradery of the events that I have worked with them at have been of amazing benefit to all those involved. I sincerely thank Young Rewired State not only for helping fund us but also for simply being Young Rewired State.

I am really pleased to announce that Rapid Electronics supplier of electronic components, equipment and educational kits have decided to help out the Creative Computing Club. It is genuinely appreciated to have this local and leading UK distributor supporting us not only with vital components but years of knowledge and experience. Thank you all at Rapid.

Huge thanks to loveelectronics.co.uk for donating some Arduino ADK and Ethernet boards to the Creative Computing Club allowing us to connect our electronics projects to Android phones and the internet. Check out the great range of breakout boards, sensors and wireless products here.

Creative Commons License

All Creative Computer Club Resources by Matthew C. Applegate are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Please note that some of these resources also contain images of software that is protected by copyright and are used under special agreement with these software companies, they are therefore are not covered by the Creative Commons License. The text is free to download, use, edit and redistribute, the images are free to download and use as is, unfortunately they are not available to edit and redistribute. You can find the resources page here.