Coming January 2006
This will be the online home of the WHS Computer Games Programming Club. This club will be set up as part of our ICT enrichment program for Gifted and Talented pupils. Computer games programming requires a good grasp of maths, spelling and punctuation, as well as the ability to create graphics on a computer. A logical mind, perserverance and the willingness to experiment are also vital to succesful programming. We'll see how many make it to the end after the first six-week session!
The starting group of six pupils will be learning how to program a simple computer game in Macromedia Flash, just like many of the online games available on the internet today. They'll be learning how to draw graphics in Flash and how to animate these using the Flash programming language called 'actionscript'.
We will be keeping a journal here which will show examples of what they have done after each session. By the end of the six weeks the pupils should have a finished a fully working Flash game that will be available here to play. If they really take to it, some may even become games programmers in the future.
Come back later to see who's in the club and the progress they're making.
