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Turing's Tower Course

Welcome to Turing's Tower Course, an intro to coding - ages 9+. A steampunk-styled platformer game. Scour the globe and repair a flying tower to fight off a giant robotic dragon.

Turing's Tower Course

Welcome to Turing's Tower Course, an intro to coding - ages 9+. A steampunk-styled platformer game. Scour the globe and repair a flying tower to fight off a giant robotic dragon.

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A Steampunk Platformer Adventure Course

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What Kids Learn

  • Learn game design as you play a game
  • Complete 40+ coding activities
  • Code your way through an adventure
  • Receive bonus tutorials as you progress
  • Explore game design techniques

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Kids learn on their own with a guided, hands-on approach that individualizes the learning experience. Tynker's online courses provide a complete learning system for your child to master the fundamentals of programming. Tynker's visual programming language makes it easy to learn, and once kids gain proficiency, they can seamlessly transition to Javascript coding within the Tynker learning system. Enroll in one of our plans for unlimited play across all courses.

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Tynker's self-guided lessons break down coding concepts while solving puzzles and making cool apps.

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Click the Mouth

Learn the basics of animation, sound, and mouse events.

6 Modules:

  • Create Your Character
  • Escape the dragon
  • Enter the Tower
  • Tower
  • Add Actors
  • Next Costume
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Flying Tower

Combine your knowledge of motion and events to code the flying tower.

2 Modules:

  • Come Alive
  • Steam Breath
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Crystal Rush

Learn to take in user input and programmatically produce an answer.

2 Modules:

  • Password Please
  • Go to Actor
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Enygma Dragon

Combine everything you have learned to defeat Enigma.

2 Modules:

  • Call Function from Another Actor
  • Call Functions of Two Different Actors from Another Actor
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Animate the Propellers

Bring the tower back to life with loops and delays.

3 Modules:

  • Ice World
  • Burning Flame
  • Flickering Flame
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Robot Claw

Explore the possibilities of movement. Code Actors to follow your mouse, fling in a direction, or move on their own.

2 Modules:

  • Platform Repeat
  • Purple Follows Mouse
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Catch the Crystals

Combine your knowledge of motion and events to make a collection minigame.

2 Modules:

  • Controlled Platform
  • Green Melts Walls
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Dive Bombers

Combine your knowledge of motion and events to code the flying tower.

2 Modules:

  • Click to Move Wall
  • Click to Move Wall with Else
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Minefield Maze

Learn to use angles and directions for Actor movement.

3 Modules:

  • Underwater World
  • Repeat While
  • Degrees and Rotation Style
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Shield Generator

Use computer drawing to create a shield for the tower.

2 Modules:

  • Pen Down/Up, Stamp, Clear
  • Color Effects
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Maze Runner

Use computer drawing to create a shield for the tower.

2 Modules:

  • Layering
  • Sounds
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Night Mission

Program fine movement with X- and Y- coordinates.

2 Modules:

  • Change x/y
  • Random
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3 Cannons 1 Tower

Send messages to communicate between multiple Actors and their code.

3 Modules:

  • Underground World
  • Click the Crystal
  • Click the Crystal 2
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Laser Attack

Use computer drawing to create a shield for the tower.

2 Modules:

  • Give him health
  • Global Variables
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Meteor Shower

Combine your knowledge to code the tower through the meteor shower.

2 Modules:

  • Two Platforms
  • Drag the Crystals
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Functions and Parameters

Use functions to organize and reuse your code.

2 Modules:

  • Drill
  • More Drills

Algorithms & Programming

Arrange commands in code to produce desired solutions.

Problem Solving

Evaluate task goals and identify steps to reach them.

Critical Thinking

Analyze and develop logical solutions to problems.

Decision Making

Determine options in the execution of a task with differing outcomes.

Testing & Debugging

Review code to locate and fix errors.

Interactive Programs

Create a program with multiple moving, visual, interactive parts.

Animation

Make parts of a program change appearance over time with motion or image sequences.

Pen Drawing

Produce artwork by controlling a virtual pen with code.

Math

Utilize arithmetic, algebra, or geometry in a coding project.

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