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Microsoft MakeCode Arcade

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Arcade Develop student programming skills by quickly creating and modding retro arcade games with Blocks and JavaScript in the MakeCode editor.

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Other hardware can be added so students can use send the code and play with a physical device like: Meobit, Brainpad Arcade, TinkerGen GameGo, Adafruit PyBadge, Adafruit, PyGamer, Kitronik Arcade, Ovobot Xtron Pro, Retro Arcade for Education, Adafruit EdgeBadge, Adafruit M4, Adafruit Joy Bonnet and more.

GameSalad for Education

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GameSalad turns gamers into game creators! With GameSalad, creators and learners ages 12 and beyond build their own mobile and web video games with a no-code visual programming system. 

GameSalad for Education is in classrooms all over the world helping teachers build computer science and game design programs that build student confidence and mastery. Any educator can teach Computer Science with GameSalad. Feel prepared with full lesson plans, in-class activities, step-by-step tutorials for students, and live teacher support. Your students’ previous CS experience is as diverse as the real world. From beginner to advanced, meet them where they are and take them to the next level with GameSalad. Your students will immediately begin building projects that quickly engage them in CS. You can even learn along with them. 

Lesson plans are CSTA standards-aligned and include teacher-led in-class activities over a wide range of computing subjects. Activities promote live discussion in the class as a break from screen time.

Unity Learn for Educators

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Teach your students with the same real-time 3D development platform and workflows used by professionals to create immersive experiences across industries. Teach students how to use Unity to create interactive products and experiences in 2D, 3D, AR and VR. Find resources for integrating Unity into your curriculum.

This includes the Create with Code course. In this official course from Unity, you will learn to Create with Code as you program your own exciting projects from scratch in C#. As you iterate with prototypes, tackle programming challenges, complete quizzes, and develop your own personal project, you will transform from an absolute beginner to a capable Unity developer. By the end of the course - if you are completing it through a school program - you will also be ready to put your skills to the test on the Unity Certified User Programmer Exam. Most importantly, though, when you complete this course, you will have the confidence that you can Create with Code. Educators who want to bring this curriculum into their classroom should complete the short Teacher Training course first.

Also included are courses, a live series, a Facebook group, a curricular framework, and more.

Construct 3

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Construct 3 is a web-based, 2D game creation tool. Over 250,000 users monthly create games in Construct 3. Construct's been designed to allow you to make your own game you've always wanted to make.

Engage and inspire your students with Construct 3, the best tool to teach a wide range of skills. From the principles of programming to team-work, publishing, marketing and more. Suitable from primary to adult education and everything between. Construct 3 is widely used in 47 US states as well as countless schools, colleges and universities around the world.

Construct 3 has a powerful event based system that allows you to teach and learn the principles of programming in an accessible and easy to understand way. Write your first lines of Javascript code in Construct's event blocks. Unlike other proprietary languages you find in other game making software, Javascript is a real world language used widely in industry.

Construct 3 runs in the browser so will run on just about any device including Chromebooks & Raspberry Pis! No lengthy installing or updating multiple machines — it just works and auto updates itself with the latest updates. Once loaded Construct 3 will work even when you're offline.

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