Code Combat Kithgard Dungeon Review

CODE COMBAT

My first expierence with Code Combat has been a fun ride! You can only play 12 of the 39 levels in the first area, but those 12 levels are tutorials and tell you how to code.

GEAR

You collect gear as you play the game and as you can see there are a lot of gear to chose from. The gear does actually give you something like more deffense, health, combat power, or even a new ability. You can also change your heros to fit what you like.

CODE

This is the screen where you find your code, and you can see that it is pretty straight forward. You just have to type the code and your character will move.

REVIEW

Code Combat is a coding game for people who want to learn about code, but have some expierence with it. The coding in this game is easy, but that is because this is the first world. The music is not good in my opinion, but it doesn't affect the expierence. The problem is, that this game sometimes puts you by yourself and doesn't tell you how to do something even when its telling you to do it. Hower, they did teach me new ways to code, like using a while-true loop which loops your code. Or find-nearnest enemy, to find the enemy so you can attack it. It also taught me how to name the enemies enemy 1 from hero. attack. Alos, this game shouldn't be compared to code.org in my opinion. This game offers a lot more than what code.org could offer and feels like it is more creative than code.org. The final grade I would give this game is....

9.5/10 A Really good and Fun Game

How to Use Code in Minecraft Adventure

WORKSPACE

On the right you can see 3 spaces. There is the gamespace: where you see how your code is being put to use. There is the toolbox: where you can find all the tools you are limited to using. There is also the workspace, where you make your code to perform the task.

MOVING AND DESTROYING

In This program, you can move Steve or Alex to a space forward by adding the move forward block. You can also destroy blocks by adding the destroy block button. Finally, you can turn right or left by adding the turn left or turn right blocks.

REPEATING LOOPS AND PLACING BLOCKS

Instead of having to redo the same code every single time, you can place loops to do that for you! You just have to drag what ever you want to repeat under the repeat block to repeat it. You can even repeat other repeat blocks for more complicated codes. In minecraft, you can place blocks to make structures. In code, you just get the place block and pick what you want to place. Like birth planks.

IF STATEMENTS

If statements allow you to perform a certain task if there is something triggering it. For example, if there is lava ahead you could make it so you place a cobblestone to save yourself from dieing. The best part about if statements is that you don't need to tell the computer to do repeat something again, unlike repeat blocks. It can go on forever!

HOUR OF CODE MINECRAFT DESIGNING

HOUR OF CODE MINCRAFT             ADVENTURE

WORKSPACE

On the right you can see 3 spaces. There is the gamespace: where you see how your code is being put to use. There is the toolbox: where you can find all the tools you are limited to using. There is also the workspace, where you make your code to perform the task.

LOOPS

Computers can do a task millions and billions of times without stopping and that is where the forever loop comes into play. This loop will make the chicken move forever.

EVENTS

In minecraft when you hit a cow it runs away, when a creeper comes by it will explode. These are called events. In hour of code use the event sheep when used to show what will happen when you interact with the sheep.

SPAWN

Spawning in things is the same as adding them into the world. You can spawn zombies at night if you put it inder the when night block. This will make it so the zombies would get spawned only at night.

EXERIENCE WITH VIDEO GAMES

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