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#132: The PIC Make a Video Game!?

Nov 16, 202350 minEp. 132
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Episode description

Chrissie learns to code with the help of the programming environment, Scratch! Chrissie's youngest was playing with Scratch the other day and Steve decided to check it out for himself and build a little demo Pong game because a) it's fun and b) Chrissie has never heard of pong! Together during Steve's lunch break, the PIC add a feature to the game while exploring basic programming concepts. Is Chrissie going to quit dance to become a game developer now? Tune in and find out!


Play our game here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/924724035


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━ Video Chapters ━━━━━━━━━━━

00:00 Intro Theme

00:32 Introductions

03:39 Updating "CAT Pong" while exploring Scratch

37:28 Thoughts on Scratch

40:18 Moving Beyond Scratch

46:04 The Wrap-Up

48:55 Outro Theme


━ Episode Links ━━━━━━━━━━━

Our game, "CAT Pong" https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/924724035


Learn about Scratch! https://scratch.mit.edu


Explore Apple's Swift Playgrounds https://developer.apple.com/swift-playgrounds/


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