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Oskar Competes with Code!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Featured Maker Oskar is eight years old, and some of his favorite hobbies are playing Tynker, playing soccer (he\u2019s currently on a soccer team), and jumping on the trampoline. He\u2019s got lots of favorite school subjects; he can\u2019t pick just one. A fun fact about Oskar: He\u2019s half Swedish, speaks Swedish, and gets to go to Sweden to see family! We got to talk with Oskar and his dad Andreas about Oskar\u2019s passion for coding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have an idea of what you want to be when you grow up?<\/strong> Someone who does coding with robots and space, and a football star! When we asked what Oskar would like to program robots to do, he said,<\/em> \u201cMake coffee in the morning.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

How did you get introduced to Tynker and how long have you been coding?<\/strong> My dad found Tynker and told me about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you learn how to use Tynker when you were first starting out?<\/strong> I just started doing courses, and the courses led me through, then I started doing more complicated ones, until I finally learned how to make my own projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are your favorite Tynker courses or tutorials?<\/strong> Mythicraft! <\/span><\/p>\n

How have your coding skills improved since you started using Tynker?<\/strong> They improved really much! Since now I\u2019ve made mini computer games. When I did start Tynker it was pretty easy because it was just like the courses like, move forward like three times or something. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is your favorite project you\u2019ve made so far?<\/strong> What do you like about it? I like all of them. I wish I could push \u201clike\u201d on them myself. <\/span><\/p>\n

Where did you get the idea for \u201cFrogga\u201d?<\/strong>\u00a0I only made it because I wanted to see if I could make a better game than [my dad] could because he did this course where you had to make one. <\/span>You have this turtle guy who jumped up and bounced around. <\/span><\/p>\n

Can you tell us about one of your other projects?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Well, the one about the soccer players, one represented this real-life soccer player [Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107] when he was on one team, and the other player represented when he was on a different team. I\u2019m wearing his [jersey] now.\u00a0 You\u2019re meant to press this guy who does the evil laugh and then you\u2019re meant to press the other guy as soon as he\u2019s finished, and then he\u2019ll do a guy scream, and then you\u2019ll hear a punching sound and the guy who laughed will go flying, and then there\u2019s going to be a laser sound and the other guy\u2019s going to go flying away. But then there\u2019s going to be a flame that goes on his foot, and if you press it, it makes a sound. There\u2019s a little ball in the middle and if you press it, it makes a siren sound.<\/p>\n

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