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) |
AC9TDI8P07
Design the user experience of a digital system
AC9TDI8P08
Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language |
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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