Bentley University Summer Camp with programming

Java Coding: Build Mods with Minecraft

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Game Dev
• Features: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

Students will learn the source code of Minecraft, the basics of the Java programming language, integrate custom tools, blocks, mobs into their version of this open game. The course includes programming in Java in an accessible way that will prepare graduates for future studies.

The program includes:

• Using variables, functions, control structures to customize Minecraft
• Java programming
• Minecraft Mod Development
• The development of logical thinking.

Java Coding: Custom Blocks & Maps in Minecraft

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Game Dev, Creative
• Provision: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

The use of Java-code allows you to add a personalized modernized Minecraft style, your own items, blocks, design, build an adventure map, include your own additions. By practicing Java coding, game design, students will create mods, maps, and be able to share them online.

Study will allow:

• Develop adventure maps, Minecraft mods
• Use variables, functions, control structures, customize Minecraft
• Encode Java
• Develop logical thinking, problem solving skills.

Game Creation & AI with JavaScript

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Game Dev, Creative
• Tools: JavaScript, HTML5.

95% of all sites in the world use JavaScript: the use of this powerful language allows you to learn the basics of coding, and helps to create exciting interactive games. Participants will be able to program their own projects, apply vivid graphics, read input data, and recreate their favorite games. Later, young people will learn to introduce voice, sound, image recognition into the game. Using artificial intelligence, JavaScript, HTML, participants will develop the next generation of games, begin to program.

Course Outline:

• application of programming logic to create game mechanics
• Build games from start to finish
• Practice the principles of game design.

Coding & engineering 101

• 10-12 liters
• Coding robotics
• Hardware: JavaScript, micro: bit.

A universal, dynamic course combines coding, development, students will start with the basics of computer, hardware, combine this knowledge with the concepts of object-oriented programming. Participants will be trained in programming on micro: bit, an interactive handheld computer that they will take home. JavaScript micro: bit helps to determine movement, send messages, create games. Individual students will have to tighten their practical coding skills.

Classes allow you to:

• Master micro: bit, develop games, applications
• Programming in JavaScript, creating simple logic diagrams
• Learn how programs work
• Develop logical thinking.

Robotics & Sensors with Take-Home Sphero RVR

• 10-12 liters
• Coding robotics
• Provision: Sphero RVR with Advanced Sensor Kit.

Participants will learn how to use autonomous robotics using Sphero RVR, a programmable robot that is ready for use immediately after installation. Sphero RVR is a custom bot equipped with a wide range of sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road equipment.

Study results:

• Application of Sphero RVR, the study of coding techniques, robotics
• Programming robot performance of specific tasks
• The formation of the basic behavior of artificial intelligence
• Development of problem solving skills.

YouTube Gamecasting & Video Production

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Tools: Adobe Premiere, video equipment, YouTube.

Pupils will launch a gaming YouTube channel, learn how to broadcast their favorite video games, move on to the basics of video production, create audio, visual effects, and an exciting online broadcast. YouTube's Gamecasting & Video Production course is the perfect mix of games, video production, and a host of exciting, real-life skills.

The program includes:

• Shooting gameplay videos for YouTube
• Application of operator software, video editing, audio
• Online brand development.

Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Equipment: Adobe Premiere, video equipment, YouTube.

Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel will teach young people how to create their own online brand. From video blogs to study guides or short films, participants get complete freedom to oversee their online presence. Having studied the basics of preliminary preparation, compositions, adolescents will realize their creative ideas and will shoot on professional equipment. Improving staff with Adobe Premiere software, students will take their projects to the next level.

Classes will allow:

• Create video content, use the basics of production
• Shoot on professional DSLR cameras
• Form a unique online brand.

Creative Design Studio with Adobe Animate

• 10-12 liters
• Game Dev, Creative
• Features: Adobe Creative Suite.

Students at Creative Design Studio with Adobe Animate implement their own projects, using bright details, master the fundamental principles of art, animations that are used by game design professionals, will use premium software - Adobe Animate, a set of other Adobe products that reveal their inner vision. By instilling critical thinking skills and composition planning, this course will allow you to build a solid foundation, learn the principles of design, the formation of creative solutions that a future designer needs.

Lessons include:

• Design art, animation, application of the basics of drawing
• Work on Wacom professional drawing tablets
• Practice visual storytelling through concepts, planning
• Digital Portfolio Development.

3D Printing & Modeling with Take-Home Printer

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Provision: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

The 3D Printing & Modeling with Take-Home Printer program includes the development of simple models, the study of the basics of three-dimensional modeling, the practice of the 3D printing process, the development of Autodesk Maya models, the import of a more complex design, and its use as a starting point. While working on the project, students will learn how to maintain a 3D printer, take with them everything they print, acquire skills, tools to continue working.

Students will master:

• The whole process of 3D printing
• Best Practices for Effective 3D Printing, Troubleshooting
• Work in 3D space, model design
• Visual spatial skills.

Game Design & Development 101

• 13-17 l.
• Game Dev, Creative
• Tools: Autodesk Maya, Unreal Engine 4.

Participants will learn the professional design of video games, use popular industry tools. They will begin the week by mastering the stages of creating Maya 3D objects, designing levels in Unreal Engine 4, channeling new skills into developing a well-thought-out world, importing their Maya models into Unreal, setting up a well-thought-out world, adding unique coded elements thanks to the UE4 Blueprints visual scripting system. Participants will supplement the portfolio with their own professionally developed game level.

Course Objectives:

• Create levels, environments
• Design 3D Models
• Use Blueprints Visual Scripting
• Develop the necessary design skills, creativity.

Fortnite Camp & Unreal Engine Level Design

• 13-17 l.
• Game dev
• Equipment: Fortnite, Unreal Engine 4.

Participants at Fortnite Camp & Unreal Engine Level Design will unveil the power of the game development tools used to create it. Epic Games' Unreal Engine will allow you to develop your own levels inspired by Fortnite, discover gameplay strategies, game mechanics, build a team, analyze Fortnite level design. Using new skills to create Battle Royale levels, participants will begin their future as Unreal Engine professionals.

The objectives of the program:

• Learn Fortnite gameplay, level design principles
• Create Levels, Environments
• Fill your levels with actors
• Develop visual programming language Blueprints
• Get basic game development skills.

Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4

• 13-17 l.
• Game Dev, Creative
• Software: Unreal Engine 4, Adobe Photoshop.

When developing Unreal Engine 4, participants will create their own world using a world-class photorealistic game engine used to create award-winning game products. Using the Sequencer, an editing, animation tool, participants will create dynamic videos with detailed characters, animations, sounds. By combining their own imagination, knowledge gained, participants will be able to create new intricate stories.

In this course you will:

• Create game levels, environments
• Fill worlds with nets, actors
• Create videos using Sequencer
• Learn Visual Blueprints Programming Language
• Get basic game development skills.

Program Gameplay Mechanics with Unreal Engine 4

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Equipment: Unreal Engine 4.

Students will push the boundaries of skills, create unique games by working with a complete set of tools, Unreal Engine 4, the leading game engine that is used to create award-winning games. Young people will learn how to develop traditional types of games - FPS, platformers, racing games, use Blueprints, a visual programming language, to change, create game events (moving platforms, control points). Refining their design skills, preparing for the start of a career as a game designer, participants will complement the resume with interesting projects.

Study results:

• Game Game Level Development
• Filling worlds with nets, actors
• Application of Blueprints, Unreal Engine visual programming language for the implementation of game mechanics
• Player-program interaction development
• The formation of the necessary skills of game design.

VR design with Unity and Oculus Go

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Tools: Unity, Magica Voxel, Oculus Go.

The curriculum offers an introduction to virtual reality, Oculus Go - an all-in-one virtual system without connected wires or cords, combined with Unity, a standard game engine. Having created amazing worlds in which you can see, hear, and students will take their projects home, Oculus Go, in order to continue to create and improve their interactive virtual projects.

Study includes:

• The use of game objects, models, levels to create virtual environments
• Program Interactions with C #
• The experience of creating virtual reality
• Development of coding skills, design.

Intro to Python Coding for Machine Learning

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Equipment: Python, Tensorflow, PyCharm.

Participants will gain practical experience in introducing machine learning, coding skills - one of the most popular in the modern labor market. Having learned the basics, students will move on to logical games, Python, the fastest growing programming language, object-oriented concepts. With a deeper understanding of coding, they will create simple neural networks and prepare for a more advanced machine learning course.

Training allows you to:

• Code using Python
• Master the basic neural networks
• Prepare for more advanced machine learning content
• Get machine learning skills.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Equipment: PyCharm, Python, TensorFlow.

The program forms an idea of machine learning, the tasks that it performs. Participants use data sets, probabilities, statistics, use tools such as Python, TensorFlow (help computers emulate the work of the brain).

Syllabus:

• Using TensorFlow to create a neural network
• Learning Machine Learning, Python
• Development of coding skills, logical thinking.

Cybersecurity & encryption

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Provision: Python, PyCharm.

At the Cybersecurity & Encryption course, young people will learn how to hide information, create secret messages, share plans with their classmates, always staying ahead of potential cyber attacks. Participants will learn how to encrypt data with the help of programs, learn how the principles of cryptography are related to modern cybersecurity, learn functionality, implement algorithms, (SHA, RSA) to ensure the security of modern computer systems.

Program Results:

• Message encryption, secure storage of information
• Decryption of encrypted messages
• Development, analysis of small security programs.

Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: Voiceflow for Alexa & Google Assistant.

Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant will take you to the next level in voice application development. A unique course will help develop an application for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, which plays a voice game that transmits music. Voiceflow programming will allow you to develop a new voice application, post it online.

Students will master:

• Voice application development
• Device, Amazon Alexa control, Google Assistant
• Screenshot programs, visual workflows.

Advanced Minecraft Modding with Java

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Equipment: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

Participants will go beyond the basics, go to Java coding with Minecraft. They will change the live code base inside the popular game, create their own tools, blocks, mobs, reveal the capabilities of Java, and acquire the skills to solve critical problems necessary for a future career, personal projects.

What participants will learn:

• Using variables, functions, control structures to help customize Minecraft
• Java programming
• Minecraft Mod Development
• The development of logical thinking, problem-solving skills.

Code Apps with Java

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Features: Java, IntelliJ.

The Code Apps with Java course involves learning the basics of Java, one of the earliest, most current programming languages. Java has many uses, from game development to business applications. Participants from beginner to those preparing for the AP Computer Science exam will be able to hone their Java skills using console applications, programming tasks.

The program allows you to:

• Encode projects using Java
• Use arrays, loops, if statements
• Define variables, data types, classes, constructors
• To solve programming problems using logic.

Code Apps with C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: C ++, the Microsoft Visual Studio Community.

The curriculum includes the study of the basics of C ++, one of the most important programming languages, applications, covering the stages from system software design to game development. C ++ opens to students a huge world of coding, development, regardless of what they want to create. Using coding skills, creating projects, students will test the growing knowledge of coding problems in an interview format.

The curriculum allows you to:

• Initialize, use variables
• Work with strings, characters, algorithms
• Solve programming problems using logic, code
• Accept, process user input.

Develop & Code Games with C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Provision: C ++, the Microsoft Visual Studio community.

Participants will master C ++ skills, learn how to introduce gameplay images, and create their own arcade games using graphic libraries. Students will focus on the implementation of basic artificial intelligence, keyboard and mouse controls, and will find the interaction points of all the main components of the creation of the game. Participants will prepare for a career in gaming programming, learn how to use the standard edition of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition to create new projects.

The course teaches:

• Initialize, use variables
• Work with strings, characters, algorithms
• Use graphic libraries, add visual effects
• Respond to users.

Autonomous Robotics with Take-Home Sphero RVR

• 13-17 l.
• Coding robotics
• Features: Sphero RVR with Advanced Sensor Kit.

Students will discover the world of autonomous robotics with Sphero RVR, a durable, versatile, programmable robot that is ready to go right after installation. Designed with individual characteristics in mind, the Sphero RVR has many built-in sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road protectors. Sphero RVR is more than your regular programmable bot, it is a new level of interaction between hardware, practical robotics, and engineering.

Training program:

• Sphero RVR study to study coding techniques, robotics
• Reading Sensor Data
• Developing basic AI behavior
• Application of programming logic, computational thinking.

Robotics Engineering & Coding Lab with VEX - $ 1,748 / week

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Robotics
• Provision: Vex Robotics V5, VEX Coding Studio.

Participants in the Robotics Engineering & Coding Lab with VEX course will advance their real robotics skills and learn about the VEX Robotics design system. They will set up, create, connect the base for their robot, will observe how it works. Participants will adapt the robot to solve dynamic, user-driven tasks (obstacle courses), developing teamwork skills. Using VEX Coding Studio, VEX C ++, a language of robotic coding, students will program the bot to perform autonomous tasks (navigating in the maze, stacking, moving objects).

Study results:

• Applying the Right Gear Ratios to Create Speed or Torque
• Implementation of analog, digital sensors for tasks
• Defining a programming management structure
• Participation in robotics competitions.

3D Printing Modular Devices with Take-Home Printer

• 13-17 l.
• Robotics, creative
• Tools: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

Students will discover the fast-growing world of 3D printing, create complex 3D models with Autodesk Maya, and design moving parts driven by an engine. The program allows you to track the printing process from start to finish: to study maintenance procedures, compliance with safety standards (replace the filament, clean, prepare the assembly plate for the best possible print). Participants will see how prints take shape layer by layer, plug in engines, see how their designs come to life.

Program Content:

• Learning the Steps of the 3D Printing Process
• Best Practices for Effectively Creating 3D Printing, Solving Printing Problems
• The study of 3D space, the design of 3D models
• Development of moving 3D-printed models.

Digital Video Production: Start a YouTube Channel

• 13-17 l.
• Creative
• Features: Adobe Premiere & After Effects, YouTube.

YouTube is a place where participants can realize their innovative ideas: create video blogs, game broadcasts, study guides to ensure an online presence, and engage in video production. Students will take pictures with professional equipment, use Adobe Premiere to improve their project. Advanced students will improve their skills in Adobe After Effects, combine their creative efforts, creating an interesting channel that will attract subscribers.

Classes teach:

• Work with professional equipment, including DSLR cameras
• Editing video, audio tracks
• Using operator software.

Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube

• 13-17 l.
• Creative
• Software: Adobe Premiere & After Effects, YouTube.

Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube will allow students to explore all stages of video production by planning, frame-up their digital work, collaborate with their colleagues, make a film, and explore professional equipment. Using the capabilities of Adobe Premiere to edit clips, add animations, special effects using Adobe After Effects.

Study results:

• Professional equipment including DSLR cameras
• Editing video, audio tracks, using operator software
• Development of special effects, animations.

Code Cafe: Interactive Game Development with Java

• 10-15 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Tools: Java, IntelliJ, processing.

Using Java, participants will learn the basics of programming to create attractive applications, graphic games. Going beyond the interaction with the console, text programs. The priority of visual, user feedback will optimize the user experience. Thanks to graphic manipulations, interactive design, visual implementation, the course will provide a direct understanding of programming.

Classes allow you to:

• Encode Java Games
• Define variables, if statements, loops, classes, constructors
• Create graphics, animations using Processing
• Apply game design.

Print Shop: 3D Printing for Physical Devices

• 10-15 l.
• Robotics, creative
• Features: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

3D-printed objects are changing the world, used by many industries - from prosthetics to the creation of rocket engines. Participants will use Autodesk Maya to design, create complex three-dimensional models, use a 3D printer. Participants will learn the best safety and maintenance practices, see how a sample designed by them is created, connect their models to a DC motor, and see how they begin to move.

The program includes:

• Learning the 3D Printing Process
• Applying best practices for efficient 3D printing, troubleshooting fingerprints
• Mastering 3D space, model design

Development of moving 3D printed models.

Jam Band: Digital Music Creation

• 10-15 l.
• Creative
• Equipment: Digital Music Kit.

Revealing musical abilities, students will engage in the development of electronic music, explore this constantly expanding genre, which covers many variations. Girls will use professional software, realizing their creative potential, create their own rhythm, polish compositions to the studio level. With electronics, students will explore the world of digital music production.

Course Outline:

• Learn the basics of creating digital music
• Work with external audio equipment
• Editing, development of audio tracks.

Art Gallery: Creative Design with Adobe Animate

• 10-15 l.
• Creative
• Software: Adobe Creative Suite.

Pupils realize amazing images, a full set of creative Adobe products, including Adobe Animate, learn the basics of composition, develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and solve design problems.

In this course you will:

• Learn design, art, animation using the basics of drawing
• Use professional Wacom drawing tablets
• Practice digital citizenship, online marketing
• Develop a digital portfolio.

Photo Booth: Pro Photography for Instagram

• 10-15 l.
• Creative
• Equipment: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, DSLR cameras.

Participants will create perfect pictures, complement the portfolio, learn the principles of digital SLR photography, the basics of editing to improve images of Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. They will publish edited photos (Instagram), create their own brand or other online presence.

In this course you will:

• Shoot on a DSLR camera
• Change exposure, use aperture, ISO settings
• Edit Images (Photoshop, Lightroom)
• Create an Instagram gallery of portrait or landscape photography.

Film Studio: Video Production for YouTube

• 10-15 l.
• Creative
• Software: Adobe Premiere, YouTube.

The course teaches the creation of content for video blogs, study guides, short films, use professional-grade cameras, Adobe software. After learning the basics of filming, editing, participants will launch the YouTube channel, remove their own story, launch the YouTube channel.

Students will learn:

• Create YouTube video content
• Use professional equipment including DSLR cameras
• Edit video, audio tracks.

Machine Learning: Coding Deep Neural Networks

• 13-18 l.
• Coding, Robotics
• Tools: NVIDIA Jetson Nano, PyCharm, TensorFlow.

Machine learning methods, although formalized in the 1950s, have only recently begun to have a significant impact. These deep learning methods have shown the best results in the field of diagnostics, imaging, Snapchat filters, natural language processing, Siri, allowing the development of future technologies.

Students will begin to learn Python, Tensorflow, a lot of data to build neural networks, set up reward schemes, process data. Second stage: students will test their skills in the environments used by professional researchers - Deepmind Starcraft 2 Learning Environment.

Learning Outcomes:

• Using TensorFlow to Create a Neural Network
• Learning Machine Learning with Python
• Learning Speed Optimization
• Development of coding skills, machine learning.

Hackathon: Team-Based App Creation with Unity

• 13-18 l.
• Coding, game development, creative
• Equipment: Unity, C #, Adobe Photoshop.

Participants will develop application development skills, the result of a two-week team work will be a real product. In the first week, they will learn the basics of application development with Unity, the standard development tool, C #. Having created their UX / UX experience, working on the interaction of coding, technologies that they already own. After learning the basics, participants will work collectively, realizing a common vision. Teenagers will check the code in online repositories, they will be able to actively create versions of the code based on a real project. The final course will be the development of an application or game.

Students will learn:

• How to make applications, design workflows
• Coding basics, work C #
• Effective teamwork.

Cybersecurity Lab: Encryption & Steganography

• 13-18 l.
• Coding
• Features: Python, PyCharm, HARP prototype.

Cybersecurity professionals are in high demand in today's globally connected, technically oriented labor market. The Cybersecurity Lab: Encryption & Steganography course is aimed at participants planning to work on cryptographic elements, encrypt information, use complex puzzles, ciphers. Students will learn how encryption turns numbers, text, images, sounds into a scrambled stream, combines them again, they will see how time-tested methods protect information today.

Participants will learn methods of hiding, storing information on digital media, hashing algorithms (SHA, RSA), use Linux, and discover aspects of cryptography, security, encryption that provide secure network communication.

Course participants will:

• Learn Python for encrypting, decrypting messages
• Master several encryption methods
• Develop analytical skills
• Hack hardware devices, solve cryptographic puzzles.

C ++ Game Programming: Algorithms & AI

• 13-18 l.
• Coding
• Software: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Young people will learn the C ++ syntax, develop games based on 2D graphics, using custom controls throughout the session, while learning this programming language. Next, students will improve the game using gameplay algorithms (finding paths, developing maps). Mastering C ++ will help those who plan to learn the development of games or applications.

Learning Objectives:

• Be able to read user input, print formatted output
• Implement a game loop
• Use game algorithms (path finding, mapping).

Game Engine Development With C ++

• 13-18 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Tools: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Students will turn to C ++, create their first game, study the similarities in the structure of game code, which elements help to quickly, efficiently introduce new content. This knowledge will become the basis of your own game engine, understanding what code to save when creating the starting point of several projects. Game engines are an integral part of professional game development, allow you to iterate mechanics, balance, bring development to a high level of performance.

Classes include:

• Read user input, print formatted output
• Game cycle implementation
• Adding graphics, controls
• Developing an API for game engine content
• Writing basic code that can be used to create various games.