An advanced introduction to programming for middle school. Introduce programming fundamentals to your class as they build two arcade-inspired games from start to finish. The Adventure Game features a knight who has to defeat enemies to reach treasure. Students program arrow keys, fluid motion, hero and enemy behavior, and winning conditions. In Dragon Attack, they define multiple levels and lives, and program a boss enemy, while learning about variables and cloning.
 
Concepts:
Events
Keyboard and mouse interaction
Conditional loops
Nested loops
Sending and receiving messages
Fluid motion
Parallax scrolling
Local and global variables
Functions
Object cloning