Tynker Lessons

What is Tynker?

Tynker is a visual programming language that uses blocks with commands to code. To help you get used to coding, once you login, start doing some coding with any of the following programs to get the hang of it before starting any of the Drone Challenges.

Logging into an Account

Use your Google Login to start your account. You can code on a Chromebook, Android Tablet, or an iPad. Do the majority of your coding on your Chromebook and then you can always make adjustments on the tablet once you've tried out your code.

Getting Started with Coding

If you haven't done a lot of coding, it would be worth your time to start with some basic lessons to help your drone coding go easier. Tynker does provide some free 'courses' on different devices, but they are different courses for different devices and they frequently change. As of April of 2018, here are some suggestions to get you started:

Android Tablet - Crash Course:

Program a Sphero through a variety of puzzles. Learn the repeat, right and left, along with other commands that will help with flying drones. This is the best preparation for flying the drones.

iPad - Dragon Spells:

Not as good of a lead-in to flying drones as the android programs, but it does have students work with some of the basic skills needed to fly drones.

Chromebook/PC:

Programming 100 (Elementary): Assign Welcome to Tynker & Pattern Maker Programming 300 (Middle School): Assign Intro to Tynker & to prep for Swift Playgrounds on an iPad - Intro to Javascript

Starting the Drone Challenges

You can get the Drone Challenges by Signing into by joining my Tynker Class, then opening the project and 'save'. You'll then be able to create a Drone Classroom of your own, and then assign the project. Make sure before you start working on a project, to 'save as' a tutorial so that one of your projects won't have any of the code built yet!

Class Code: 475624233

Alternately, for each of the challenges under the Tynker Challenges Link in the menu, you'll need to sign in first then open the Challenge - Remix and save a copy.

If you are unsure how to complete the code, you might want to do some more practicing with the Getting Started with Coding Lessons.