The idea Our Code Club is part of Code Club Australia who provide some great resources that include some fun Scratch game tutorials/exercises. When kids are new to Code Club, the best place to start is by doing several of these step-by-step activities. Sooner or later the kids start to get some ideas, and start designing some of their own game ideas. It can be easy to stay within the safety zone of what we’ve done previously.

How do I allow users to save a game state in online Scratch? One of our Code Club kids asked this question last week. So I worked out a simple way to do this. In order for this method to work, you will need to have been upgraded from a New Scratch member to a Scratcher. This will allow you to create up to 10 cloud variables, with each able to contain 10,240 digits.

Writing SD cards on Mac OS X There’s a few different ways to do this on the Dexter Industries site, and this is post just shows a process that worked for the workshops we do at our Code Club. It may be useful for those running Mac OS X with homebrew installed. Homebrew is an easy way to install and manage open source software and other software, on the Mac.