Bullying and Coding

Bullying and Coding

I have all boys who do like computer programming.  My oldest is now a computer programmer and going back to school soon for a PhD in Computer Science and my middle son thought majoring in Physics is writing computer games all the time. While in grade school the kids...

Math is Tough Barbie strikes again?

Yep I’m pretty upset over the Barbie that has raised a new uproar. Luckily girls are striking back with Feminist Hacker Barbie.  I should mention that I’m not a strong feminist, being that I’m a WAHM that spends most of my time running kids from here...
Breakout Part 2 (Sprite Creation)

Breakout Part 2 (Sprite Creation)

When you start up Game Maker 8.1 you will see a screen like:   We now need to add 4 sprites (graphics) for our game. For Breakout we will need: 1. Bat 2. Ball 3. Barrier 4. Wall   These will be added as objects in the next lesson and then added to the...