Coding is used to tell computers what to do through written instructions. It is used for websites, games, apps, programming, and more. Understanding coding gives insight into how the digital world works. The document discusses coding skills needed for game development like attention to detail, patience, curiosity, and creativity. It notes that GameMaker uses its own language called GML. The lesson tasks students to code a lives and score system in their platformer game using GML by watching a tutorial video and applying the skills.

1. An introduction to (coding)
{
Scripting in GML
}

2. Introduction

3. What is coding?
Coding is a way of telling the computer to do something.
Simply put, it is a set of written instructions, for example;
If (lives==0)
{
GameRestart=True
}

4. What do we use coding for?
Websites
Games
App development
Programming
Hardware development support
The list goes on and on

5. Why do you need to learn coding?
We live in a digital world; much of our everyday lives are
spent interacting with the “web of things” and coding is the
magic that makes all of these things work.
Whether you want to work as a programmer or not,
understanding what code is will give you a better
understanding of how the world around you is working.

6. How important a skill is coding if you want to work in
the games industry? Why is this?

7. Programmers are the people who write code. What
skills does a good programmer need?
Attention to detail (otherwise things will go wrong)
Patience (it takes a lot of patience to figure out where you went wrong, and
how to fix it)
Curiosity (programmers always need to learn new languages)
Creativity (for figuring out a solution to a new problem or implementing your
ideas in new ways)

8. What coding language does GameMaker use?
GameMaker has its own programming language, GML, created by the
programmer Mark Overmars.
Games be made completely using GML.

9. In todays lesson
You will be using GML to create a lives and score system, rather than using the
drag and drop system we used for the top down shooter.

10. By the end of the workshop, you
MUST code simple lives & score systems in Game Maker
Language
SHOULD code the destruction of an object in Game Maker
Language
COULD experiment with your code to change how the lives,
score and collision systems work in your game level.

11. Task 1
Log onto Moodle and open up the week 2 tutorial for the
platformer series.
Watch the video and learn how to code the lives and score
system.
Apply this knowledge to your platformer level.
Play with the code; see what works and what doesn’t.

12. Task 2

13. End of lesson quiz
What is coding?
What problems did you encounter?
How could you work towards solving these problems?
Hands up who added their lives system?
Hands up who added a score system?
Hands up who added a simple enemy?
Hands up who had more than three lives?

14. Programming is an amazing skill.
Where can learning programming take you?