On the 19th of December 2020, IEEE Student Branch Universiti Putra Malaysia (IEEESB
UPM) has organised a program called “Let’s Create Awesome Games with Scratch (Beginner)” which had been participated by 14 students out of 16 registered students from various primary and secondary schools. The participants were ranging from 8 until 16 years old. This program spanned for one hour and a half starting from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. The program was presented by the instructor, Norshalisa Alis binti Zuremi and deputy instructor, Syara Haziqa binti Helmen and was supervised by Prof. Madya Dr. Noor Ain Binti Kamsani.
The objectives of this “Let’s Create Awesome Games with Scratch (Beginner)” program are to teach school students to learn basics of code programming and to encourage them to involve in hands-on session. They were also taught to create basic games through Scratch platform by coding.
The impacts of this program are participants got an overview picture on the basics of code programming and they were able to create some basic games through Scratch platform by code programming.
9a.m.– Participants were introduced to Scratch which was the platform to create their games in
this program. This introduction session was conducted for 30 minutes.
9.30a.m.- Students were taught to create their first game in a step-by-step tutorial which was “Jumping Game” for 20 minutes
9.50a.m.-Their second game which was “Shark and Fish” also for 20 minutes
10.20a.m.- Q&A session for 10 minutes to allow participants to ask the presenters regarding the tutorials for 10 minutes.
