Example Applications for Novice Coders by Language

As a summary from the book, here are some ideas for programs you and your young coder can write, separated by programming language. Although these are the ones presented in this book, you can also imagine creating almost any of these in the other languages too. When in doubt, search the Internet for examples of programs you want to build in the languages you want to build them in—luckily there is almost always a near-example that can help guide you!

Scratch

Question and Answer Game

Asteroid Game

Costume Changer with Sounds

Helicopter Flying

Crypto Code Breaker

Rock-Paper-Scissors

Random Art Maker 1

Random Art Maker 2

Race

Greeter

Micro:bit

Stock Ticker

Face Maker

MIT App Inventor

Mobile App Game

Greeter

JavaScript/HTML/CSS

Greeter

Note: Be sure you have a file called “puppy.jpg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the image actually appears.

Picture Hider

Note: Be sure you have files called “puppy.jpg” and “kitten.jpeg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the images actually appears.

Webpage

Note: Be sure you have files called “winston.jpg,” “princess.jpg,” and “luke.jpg” in the same folder as your HTML file so that the images actually appear!

Python

Mad Libs Game

Number Guesser

Greeter

Art Maker

Fibonacci Printer

Java

Pizza Divider

The Pizza Divider is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

Greeter

The Greeter is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

Number Sorter

The Number Sorter is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.

Phone Number Finder

The Phone Number Finder is a BlueJ program that you can download and run inside of the BlueJ code editor.