Variables: Keeping Score in Your Code

Categories: Computing, Key Stage 2
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About Course

Every game needs to remember things: the score, the lives left, the time on the clock. In this course children learn what a variable is, how to set and change variables in Scratch, and how to use them with selection to build a simple game with a score, lives and a countdown timer.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand what a variable is and why programs need them
  • Use set and change blocks correctly in Scratch
  • Combine variables with if and repeat until to control a game
  • Spot and fix common variable bugs

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • What Is a Variable?
  • Making a Score in Scratch
  • Lives, Timers and Game Over

For grown-ups
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