Vidcode spent the week of June 15-18 at Stevens Coop School. Sixteen students spent four days learning the fundamentals of coding with JavaScript, and making some amazing videos!
Elise, our amazing instructor, spent the first day going over the elements of JavaScript, as students used them hands-on in the Vidcode editor.
They used objects, properties and numbers to add effects to their videos, and strings to change the color of the videos they'd shot.
They learned about and created variables to hold their number and string values!
They worked with some very original variable names.
The next day, the class moved onto learning about how to create and manipulate arrays.
They used this knowledge to put photos they took into arrays, and iterated through them to create stop motions videos.
Once they learned how to create simple stop motion videos, they went out with clay and paper to create more elaborate videos, including this one below titled 'The Big Blob Attack'. Check out the code that was used to put it together!
Later in the week, students moved on to some more advanced lessons, and used functions and variables to make their videos change over time. Sam used these coding skills to make a video of a plane look like an old movie!
The last day was spent on everyone's final projects, and getting ready for final presentations! Students spent the day making new stop motions, music videos, and other creative projects, and then adding their final effects in Vidcode using everything they had learned about JavaScript that week.
Final presentations were great! Students showed off their final videos, and talked about the coding concepts that they had used in their final edits.
You can see all the videos the students made this week in our gallery!
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