The game that you programmed today
is based off of a popular internet game called Escapa!
In Escapa! the user controls a sprite with the mouse
and must avoid all other sprites.
You programmed this escape game
using the programming language Scratch.
In computer science, there are
many different programming languages,
all of which uses same computer science concepts
that you're learning in this club.
Escapa! is programmed using a language called JavaScript,
which is one of the most widely used
programming languages in the world.
JavaScript is a text-based language,
meaning that the programmer must type out all of their code.
In high school or college level computer science courses,
you will most likely learn how to code
in a text-based programming language.
Take a look at what an
if statement looks like in JavaScript.
To write an if statement in JavaScript,
you type out the word if
followed by the condition in parentheses.
The action goes inside the curly braces.
This is pretty similar to the if block in Scratch.
That means what you're creating and learning here
could really help you later.
When you sign up for a computer science class
years from now, you'll go right to the top of a class
and find it pretty familiar,
no matter which programming language you will be using,
all because of our cool club here.
In the five days you've spent in this club,
you've learned a lot of important computer science concepts
that you'll run into again and again,
no matter what programming languages
you decide to learn next.
On day six, you'll create a launcher game
with cloning enemies.
Until then, have fun creating and coding.
See ya next time.
(light music)
