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Gameblox provides an environment in which novices can create entertaining games by embedding some of the more complex programming tasks such as collisions, physics and gravity within the blocks. More advanced game designers might also find Gameblox a useful tool for rapid prototyping in their iterative design process. edX offers courses to support the use of Gameblox in game design.

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Year band(s) 5-6, 7-8, 9-10
Content type Tools for learning
Format Web page
Core and overarching concepts Implementation (programming), Design thinking
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)
AC9TDI6P02   

Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration

AC9TDI6P05   

Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input

AC9TDI8P05   

Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode

AC9TDI8P06   

Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors

AC9TDI8P09   

Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language

AC9TDI10P05   

Design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode

AC9TDI10P06   

Validate algorithms and programs by comparing their output against a range of test cases

AC9TDI10P09   

Implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language
Keywords Coding, Prototyping, Games, Visual Programming, Programming, Web-based application, Website, Web page
Organisation

MIT STEP Lab
Copyright

MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. May be subject to Copyright Act statutory licence.

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