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ComputingYears 7, 8About 4 sessions (estimate, no timer)A parent checks the finished piece
The Code Arcade
Design and build your own small text game in Python — a quiz or guessing game — using sequence, decisions, loops and lists.
What you'll make
A working Python game, a plan (algorithm) for it, a test log showing bugs you found and fixed, and a short designer's write-up.
What you'll learn
- How to plan a program as an algorithm before coding
- Variables, input and output
- Decisions with if / elif / else
- Loops to repeat things, and lists to store things
- Testing: predicting, finding bugs and fixing them
You'll need
The Python Lab on the Tech page (runs in the browser) · Paper and pencil for planning · No downloads or accounts needed
Games stay friendly: quizzes, guessing games or a tiny adventure. No personal information goes into the game.
Curriculum links
- Design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems
- Use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems
- Use a variety of data structures, including lists, tables or arrays, and design modular programs that use procedures or functions
- Understand simple Boolean logic and some of its uses in circuits and programming
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