{"id":13402,"date":"2018-09-26T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=13402"},"modified":"2023-03-08T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:10:06","slug":"noah-creates-amazing-games-with-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/noah-creates-amazing-games-with-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Creates Amazing Games with Code!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Noah Creates Amazing Games with Code!<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Noah, an 8-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, who has an incredible passion for coding. He is in the fourth grade and loves building with LEGOs, playing Minecraft, and, most importantly, being goofy! Reading is also a big part of Noah\u2019s life \u2013 Garfield comics are some of his favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noah aspires to become an engineer or a coder when he grows up; math is his favorite subject in school and comes easily to him, so these career paths would suit him perfectly! He also has an affinity for taking apart and building things (to the point that, when Noah was younger, his parents had to hide the screwdrivers from him!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had a chance to speak with Noah and his mom, Chantelle, about Noah\u2019s experience coding with Tynker. Read on to learn all about Noah and why he loves to code!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you get introduced to Tynker? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I found it and wanted to try it out because I wanted to try coding. I just continued to use it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you learn how to use Tynker when you were first starting out? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I made it all on my own \u2013 all the coding and stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chantelle: \u201cOne way we\u2019d do it was that we\u2019d find a project with similar features or something like that, and we\u2019d learn how they did it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How have your coding skills improved since you started using Tynker?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Really good I think. I don\u2019t really know how though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you feel when you found out your project had been featured?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I felt happy and excited!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do you like to code? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I like to and I don\u2019t know why. Maybe because of school and because I can make my own games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite project you\u2019ve made so far? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Flying Bird one and My Singing Monsters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=5b29a0a11c36d1cb018b4577&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Flying Bird 4.4&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>What are you planning to make next? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to learn how to use variables to make a coin bank for my My singing monsters. I want to try and make it so that you can like make your own skin and make your own island and stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=5b26c68b76f29398278b4567&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;MSM (My Singing Monsters)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favorite thing you can do in Tynker? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s the coolest thing in your game?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The coolest thing that I would add to my game is a coin bank!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also sat down with Chantelle, Noah\u2019s mom, and found out what she thinks about Noah\u2019s learning to code and what that may mean for him and his future. \u201cI was blown away with how much you can do with that app,\u201d she said. \u201cI was super proud and amazed by what he could do.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noah has Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome, but it clearly doesn\u2019t slow him down! His mom mentioned that coding has actually helped him in some areas where TS can create difficulty. \u201cIt\u2019s really nice because sometimes he can get into areas of hyperfocus and get stuck on one thing for a while, and [coding] is a really good outlet for that.\u201d Chantelle has also noticed that coding (and debugging!) helps Noah practice patience. \u201cOne thing about kids with TS is that they get really frustrated and can\u2019t really control their reactions, so it\u2019s fantastic that it\u2019s giving him little ways to be frustrated properly.\u201d It\u2019s great to hear that learning to code has such a positive impact on Noah!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were excited to learn that Noah isn\u2019t just putting his coding knowledge to use by creating projects \u2013&nbsp;he also teaches his mom to code! It helps him find the problems in his code as he walks her through it. \u201cHe teaches me how to use it! I think that\u2019s the best thing for him, because when I think he\u2019s getting frustrated I just ask him, \u2018Ok, show me how to do it,\u2019 and then he can find the problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chantelle wants Noah to have a good job that he\u2019s passionate about in the future, and she notes that technology is going to play a more and more significant role in everyone\u2019s lives. She told us, \u201cIf he gets into something like programming as a hobby as a kid, it\u2019ll be more likely that he\u2019ll want to do it in the future.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We agree \u2013 it\u2019s great that Noah is starting young, and we\u2019re sure that his coding background will help him succeed in whatever career he ends up in. Thanks for chatting with us, Noah and Chantelle! We loved learning more about you and your projects, Noah, and look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future. 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