DT Challenge - 7/8 Javascript - Cookie Clicker
Learn how to make interactive webpages and build a surprisingly addictive game! In this DT Challenge, you'll learn the web technologies that form the foundations of the internet.
In this course you'll learn the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript! You'll build webpages using text and images, and learn how to make them interactive as you add more complex UI elements.
So get your clicking fingers ready, and watch out how that cookie crumbles!
To do the challenge offline use this guide to support students.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 7-8 |
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Content type | Tools for learning, Student challenges |
Format | Interactive |
Core and overarching concepts | Implementation (programming), Computational thinking |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
ACTDIP028
Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs
ACTDIP030
Implement and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions in a general-purpose programming language
ACTDIK035
Analyse simple compression of data and how content data are separated from presentation |
Technologies & Programming Languages | JavaScript JS |
Keywords | Data: Collection, Representation, Interpretation, Specification, Algorithms, Adaptations, Science, Branching, Interaction, Input, Output, Australian Computing Academy, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DT Challenge |
Organisation | Australian Computing Academy |
Copyright | University of Sydney. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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