ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – 2 Feb 2019

Just as promised next week, today we made lots of progress 🙂

Agham has added a stop sign for the school bus so we will get socre when it reaches there

Agham carefully chose and edited the assets of the game

The game is looking very nice, what we have to figure out next is to print score and make the bus comes from the right side of the room each time leaves the room from the left side

Djalu learned how to create apps today 🙂

Djalu is signing up for a coding competition so we’re preparing for it

It took some time to switch from Python to this drag and drop programming 🙂

Djalu’s first app 🙂

Hafiz’s task for today is to create a jumping dinosaurs game like Google’s (when there’s no internet connection) 🙂

Hafiz always do task in detail 🙂 Look how he finds references and make the sprites as close as the real ones 😉

Finally done! We just need to add score and make the cactus appear randomly 🙂 Well done Hafiz 🙂

Captain on Duty: Faris

Faris is doing research on Machine Learning using Python Library to generated random faces

The codes

random process

the international conference publication he’s reading today

These faces are generated by an machine learning algorithm *isn’t it scary that these faces not really exist; but generated by a machine?

Aidia and her big awesome project! 🙂

The mouse on the right will move across and when 3 ultrasonics sensors detect it, it will control the traffic light and then open the gate 🙂 The awesome support from the family (the mom who created the maquette and the father bringing it to the class and bring it back after) that makes this incredible product possible 🙂

Aidia is a very busy little girl, she had to go right away after the class to a dance performance that’s why she looks so cute today with that hairdo and make ups 🙂

Sam, making great progress each time. Like always 🙂

He added more features to the app and he had successfully solve the problem with the sound 🙂

Fadhlan is building a new robot today. The mapping robot

Lots of components to be tested and assembled

After making like 4-5 robots from scratch, today Fadhlan actually followed the manual instructions 😀

and get much better results 😀

We tested the Arduino Leonardo today and it worked fine

we also tested every ultrasonic sensors

next week we will process the input from all 3 ultrasonics

Look at the mess 😀

Al was given the same task as Hafiz 😉

Al gave different looks to his characters

so typical of Al 🙂

Done but still need improvements 🙂

Faishal is working on the same thing as Djalu

Faishal’s first app

He started exploring the block of codes

Figuring out how to set timer for the splash screen

Sulaiman worked on the locker project

We even borrowed Aidia’s book to find ideas 🙂

Farrell got the new components to explore today: joystick, gyro and micro servo

Lots of work to do but Farrell spent some time to help Agham 🙂 Thanks Farrell 🙂

 

Yogi is working on the same game for weeks, that amazingly looks like a real game

He put HUGE effort to the game and pay attention to EVERY details

The movement, the animation, the look, the feel is very real

the key is that the game is not using only drag and drop coding, but mostly written codes.  Complicated lines of codes 🙂

Today Yogi has successfully created what he wanted to do for weeks: make a menu controlled with arrow to select 🙂 Impressive work today, Yogi 🙂

Here’s some of the codes

The result is unbelievable 🙂 Next to do: adding scores and fuel stats 😉

The best about this class is the kids will gather up together and help each other when needed 🙂 This is when a toolbox was turned upside down and all of it contents are in the floor, kids in the class come and help 🙂 Very nice 🙂

Can’t wait to see them again next week 🙂 Until then 😉 ❤

*Photos and videos are also available here

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ProCodeCG Kids Homeschool Coding Class – 11 Oct 2018

Hello ProCodeCG Homeschool Kids 🙂

Abiel decided to start another game because he forgot to save the work from the last time

Abiel created lots of sprites until his hands hurt 😀

Next time he had to bring mouse 🙂

Kinan forgot to bring laptop and charger so we had to install GameMaker Studio 2 on the other laptop and did something else while waiting for download and installation process 😀

Kinan learned coding by designing Google Logo 😉

Kinan tried lots of things to modify, give effects or animate every character 🙂

Justin is still persistency working on the Maze Game

 

The game is getting more real and of course, more complex 😉

 

Justin added some animation to the game 🙂

It is so interesting to see the progress week by week 🙂 They’ll be given different challenge next class 🙂

 

*Photos and videos are also available here

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #64 – How to be A Creative Animator

Today we’re lucky to have Founder and CEO of Kumata Studio, Daryl Wilson to share about “How to be A Creative Animator – Not Just Being Productive” 🙂

We had lots of audience today!

Kumata Studio founded in 2006. Reaching the 10th years, it has done many works including animation services, web development and graphic design. It has also won lots of awards.

One of Kumata Studio animation products is Miles and Stone, a story about a tapir and a mongoose, that are local animals living in a rain forest in Sumatra. Miles and Stone are working as delivery men.

Kumata also has Biggy Buddy 🙂

Galli Leo Lei 🙂

Ted Sparx

And this interesting story about local ghosts: The Demits 😀

Si Juki is also a very successful product. Si Juki is a sequel of short animation posted on social media.

Now, the tips and trick to be a creative animator

What is animation?

Animation is picture, sequence, time, movements, lots of pictures, story, cartoon.

So animation is illusion

The creative process of making animation is finding problem, doing research, brainstorming, filtering, production and evaluation.

Understand the problem comprehensively. Make notes. Ask questions. Don’t be selfish and make assumptions. Make confirmation. Seek for confirmation.

Do research. Collect and make list of references. Use the best references. You should know when to stop researching and start to work.

In brainstorming process, squeeze out your best ideas. Challenge the initial idea. Ask for opinions and be open for critics. Remember the problem/targets.

How to filter ideas? How to filter the best from the best? Complicated is not always good. Simplicity is not always a sign of laziness.

Production time! Time to animate! Manage time according to your capacity to be able to delivery the work that comply with target, on time.

Evaluation process is to evaluate the result. Find out things that work and which one don’t.

The good new is that Kumata Studio is hiring! It is offering internship too 🙂

Daryl Wilson is also the Chief of Ainaki, an association for animation and creative industry in Indonesia.

The target member of Ainaki:

Visit http://www.ainaki.or.id for further information.

And this is us! As happy as always! 🙂

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() 23 Feb 2015 – Possibility of Co-op based IT Company

The topic today is about IT start-up companies and the possibility of based them on co-op, an extraordinary idea presented and proposed by Seterhen Akbar, CEO of Labtek Indie.

LABTEK IND!E is an Interactive Technology Lab fueled with creatively energized and full of guts young persons, generating thousands of crazy ideas everyday and make them happen.

LABTEK IND!E implements design thinking concepts to each of its works

To be able to make a good product, it should have a desirable design, with feasible technology and visible business.

Co-op seems to be a great possibility for IT start-up companies

Co-ops offers more opportunities with distributed profits

We also got Rudi Suryadi, System Architect of IBM announcing about IBM competition going to be launched on March!

And this is us, like always, happy hearts and brains!

We’ll be reporting the next event, see you next week! 😉

Getting Prepared for Minecraft Programming

Finally things are set up to do Minecraft modding 🙂

After the CanaryMod server is up

 

Some modifications on server and world files has to be done first

 

Run Minecraft

Choose some settings before play

 

Choose Multiplayer

 

And there it is the server is waiting for login

 

And now we are inside the game ready to do some modifications! 🙂

 

 

This is a command in javascript to say hello to self

 

*note: don’t forget to op the username on the server command line

This is what happen when you declare an oak blocks:

So basically to do modifications, just create .js files under scriptcraft\plugins\{username} like this:

refresh the game

and then use the function has been created

to get something like this

and create another script

do refresh and try to boo yourself

and get boo-ed

or try some yo

and get yo-ed LOL

 

More complex command can also be done

to get something like this

Well, the possibility is endless! This is an awesome way to teach and encourage kids to create, to modify, to learn about codes subliminally (because they will also learn about looping, function and if-conditions by building things ;))

ProCodeCG is ready to teach programming with Minecraft Modding! 🙂

Useful references:
https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/docs/YoungPersonsGuideToProgrammingMinecraft.md

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() 17 Nov 2014 – IT Communities

This is our first codeMeetUp() event! Prof. Budi Rahardjo shares about IT communities, Silicon Valley Cultures, IDEO and how creative community works! 🙂