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Building an arcade shooter game in Scratch
Many years ago, when I first began learning about programming, I built the Shark Byte minigame using the Scratch platform. With a little practical experience under my belt, I followed it up with a top-down shooter called Hittoriko Hunter. It’s a progressive shooter that uses character sprites from the original Tamagotchi games. Scratch was a…
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Building video games from Scratch
A few years ago, I jumped on Harvard University’s free CS50 course, a popular self-paced MOOC. It was my first foray into coding, and I learned lots of skills including: One of the course’s first tasks was to build a video game using Scratch. I succeeded in putting together a little challenge game called ‘Shark…
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Siri shortcuts for location, distance, and bus schedules
As a student commuting to campus by bus, I wanted to get to my bus stop right on time. I didn’t want to wait in the cold because I was ten minutes early or one minute late. My course schedules were all over the place, and I was constantly trying to remember what time I…