UC Irvine Computer Science Summer Camp

Java Coding: Build Mods with Minecraft

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

Program participants will get acquainted with the source code of Minecraft, learn the basics of the Java programming language. The next step is to integrate custom tools, blocks, mods into their version of the game. Java Coding: Build Mods with Minecraft introduces Java programming in an accessible way, prepares for future programming.

Classes include:

• Using variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Java coding
• Creating Minecraft Mods
• The development of logical thinking and skills to solve technical problems.

Java Coding: Custom Blocks & Maps in Minecraft

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, game development, creative
• Provision: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

Students will learn the skills to use Java code to add a personalized, modernized Minecraft style, create their own objects, blocks, design and build an adventure map that allows you to include developed add-ons in the game. The practice of Java coding, game design will allow you to create mods, maps, share them with friends.

• Creating adventure maps, Minecraft mods
• Using variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Java coding.

Game Creation & AI with Javascript

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

JavaScript is used in the development of 95% of all sites in the world. Using this powerful language to learn the basics of coding while creating fun interactive games, you will learn how to code your own projects with vibrant graphics, read input data, and recreate your favorite games. Students will learn the basics of machine learning: how to introduce voice, sound, image recognition into the game space. Using artificial intelligence, JavaScript, HTML, participants will create the next generation of games, start programming.

The course will allow:

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

Coding & engineering 101

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

Participants in the universal course Coding & Engineering 101 will work at the intersection of coding, development. The lesson plan includes consideration of the basics of computer hardware, combining this knowledge with the concepts of object-oriented programming. Next up is learning programming with micro: bit, an interactive handheld computer that kids will take home. Using JavaScript micro: bit will be able to detect movement, send messages, create games. Some students may need to deepen their knowledge of hardware and programming before the course.

Training will allow:

• Use micro: bit to develop games, applications
• Learn JavaScript, develop simple algorithms
• Understand how programs, codes work
• To develop logical thinking skills.

Robotics & Sensors with Take-Home Sphero RVR

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Robotics
• Equipment: Sphero RVR with an advanced set of sensors.

Get started with autonomous robotics with the revolutionary Sphero RVR, a programmable robot that's ready to go right out of the box. Sphero RVR is a customizable bot with a wide range of sensors, a professional-level control system, and a powerful engine.

Students will receive the following skills:

• Using Sphero RVR to learn coding and robotics
• Programming a robot to complete tasks
• Creating Basic AI Behavior
• Develop problem-solving skills.

LEGO SPIKE Prime Robotics & Visual Coding

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Robotics
• Provision: LEGO SPIKE Prime.

LEGO SPIKE Prime is a new reliable system containing more than 500 LEGO elements. Using it to create any number of projects: visual programming, coding a robot using a multiport programmable hub. SPIKE Prime has engines, sensors, a 5x5 light matrix, represents a universal introduction to programming, robotics, inspiring further training.

What the course includes:

• Software Robotics, Graphic Code Blocks
• Learning variables, if statements, autonomous robot control
• Creating dynamic devices with high-precision engines, sensors
• Studying the concept of effective structural design.

YouTube Gamecasting & Video Production

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

The YouTube Gamecasting & Video Production course will teach gamers how to create an online presence on YouTube that will attract subscribers. This extremely popular video style will teach you how to broadcast your favorite video games, learn the basics of production, create audio, visual effects for an exciting online broadcast. The program offers the perfect combination of games, video production, developing many exciting, real skills.

Syllabus:

• Creating gameplay videos for YouTube
• Using software for filming, video editing, audio
• Online brand development.

Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel

• 10-12 liters., 13-17 liters.
• Creative
• Software: Adobe Premiere, video equipment, YouTube.

Summer shift Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel is aimed at those who want to create their own brand, launch a YouTube channel. From video blogs to textbooks and short films, participants independently determine the format of the online presence. Participants will study the organization of preliminary preparation for filming, the basics of composition, work on professional equipment, improve their staff with the help of Adobe Premiere software, which allows you to take your projects to a new level.

Learning Content:

• Creation of unique content, mastering the basics of video production
• Using professional equipment including a DSLR camera
• Formation of your own online brand.

Creative Design Studio with Adobe Animate

• 10-12 liters
• Game development, creativity
• Tools: Adobe Creative Suite.

Students will begin by exploring the fundamental principles of art, animation, used by game design, animation professionals. Further, students use premium software - Adobe Animate, a set of other Adobe products to reveal their inner vision. Having mastered the planning of composition, you will get a solid foundation of design, creative solutions - the necessary skills to succeed as a designer.

Study results:

• Design art and animation using the basics of drawing
• Using Wacom Professional Drawing Tablets
• Practice visual storytelling through concepts and planning.

3D Printing & Modeling with Take-Home Printer

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

The program allows you to master three-dimensional modeling, create simple models, see the process of 3D printing. Participants will create a model from scratch using Autodesk Maya, importing a complex design, using it as a starting point. Creating their own model, children will learn how to maintain a 3D printer, take printed models home, gain skills and tools to continue working.

The program allows you to:

• Master the full cycle of 3D printing
• Use best practices for efficient 3D printing, print troubleshooting
• Work in 3D space, design of 3D models
• Develop visual spatial abilities.

Game Design & Development 101

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

Students will learn about the professional design of video games, master the most popular tools in the industry: they will learn how to create 3D objects using Maya, design levels of Unreal Engine 4, and combine new skills to create a game world. The next step is importing Maya models into Unreal, customizing the game world, adding unique encoded elements using the UE4 Blueprints visual scripting system. Students will complete the course with their own professionally developed level of play, which will become a spectacular part of the portfolio.

What students will learn:

• Create game levels, environments
• Design 3D game models
• Use visual blueprints to move objects
• Develop the necessary skills for game design, creativity.

Fortnite Camp and Unreal Engine Level Design

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

The summer change of Fortnite Camp and Unreal Engine Level Design will reveal the possibilities of the game development tool that was used to create Fortnite. Epic Games Unreal Engine - a tool for developing your own game levels inspired by Fortnite, discover gameplay strategies, game mechanics, team building, analysis of Fortnite level design. Using the new skills of creating Battle Royale levels, young people will begin to develop as professionals in the Unreal Engine.

Course participants:

• Learn Fortnite Gameplay and Level Design
• Create game levels, environments
• Fill levels with actors
• Get skills in using the visual programming language Blueprints
• They will form the basic skills of game development.

Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4

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

Participants will develop their own world using the world-class photorealistic game engine Unreal Engine 4. Sequencer, a tool for editing, animation in real time, will allow you to create dynamic videos with very detailed characters, animations, sounds. Summer program Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4 is focused on the development of imagination, the creation of intricate stories.

Learning Content:

• Filmmaking, Sequencer
• Using Visual Blueprints Programming Language
• Basic game development skills.

VR Design with Unity & Oculus Go

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, game development
• Provision: Unity, Magica Voxel, Oculus Go.

Changing VR Design with Unity & Oculus Go will allow you to immerse yourself in a game with virtual reality and Oculus Go. This all-in-one virtual system with no wires or cords connected is combined with Unity, a standard game engine. Creating amazing worlds where you can see, hear, feel part of what is happening. After completing their studies, participants will take home their own development, Oculus Go, to continue to create, improve interactive virtual projects.

What includes training:

• Using game objects, models, levels to create virtual environments
• Program Interactions with C #
• Ability to work with 3D, creating a virtual reality experience
• Development of coding skills, design.

Intro to Python Coding for Machine Learning

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

Participants in the Intro to Python Coding for Machine Learning course will learn how to use data sets, probabilities, statistics, and more to master machine learning. Python tools, TensorFlow help computers emulate the work of the brain, creating a new reality, embodying any ideas. Novice students will find it easier to work on the course if they deepen their knowledge of Python for machine learning.

Students will master:

• TensorFlow to create a neural network
• Machine Learning (Python)
• The basics of coding.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

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

What if your code can convert the image horses in the zebra, the difference between cats and dogs and beat the world chess champion? Move away from witchcraft, machine learning is here, and it performs tasks that were previously considered possible only in fantasy worlds. Immerse yourself in this evolving area using data sets, probabilities, statistics, and more. With tools such as Python and TensorFlow (which helps computers to emulate brain function), you will turn yesterday's dreams into reality. Newcomers will have to tighten their Python skills.

Participants will:

• Use TensorFlow to create a neural network
• Learn Machine Learning with Python
• Develop coding and logical thinking skills.

Cybersecurity & encryption

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

In this course, participants will learn how to encrypt information, create secret messages, share plans, always staying one step ahead of potential cyber attacks. Students will be able to encrypt data using programs, computers, learn how the principles of cryptography are related to modern cybersecurity, study functionality, the possibility of implementing algorithms (Sha, RSA) to ensure the security of modern computer systems.

Students will be able to:

• Encrypt messages, store information securely
• Decrypt Encrypted Messages
• Create, analyze small security programs
• Develop safety thinking.

Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: Voice stream for Alexa and Google Assistant.

The Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant program will take voice applications to a new level, develop an application for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Regardless of whether you want your application to play a voice game or stream music, Voiceflow encoding makes a voice application a reality. Using the acquired skills, students will develop their own application, will be able to post it online.

Participants will learn:

• Create voice applications
• Work with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
• Use the design of the drag and drop program, visual workflows.

Advanced Minecraft Modding with Java

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

The Advanced Minecraft Modding with Java program will go beyond the basics and move on to production Java coding with Minecraft. Pupils will change the live code base, create their own tools, blocks, mobs. The second part of the course is the study of Java capabilities, the formation of skills for solving technical problems that are relevant for a future career, personal projects.

The program includes:

• Using variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Writing Java Programs
• Minecraft Mob Creation
• The development of logical thinking.

Code Apps with Java

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

Students will learn the basics of Java, the oldest and still relevant programming language. It has a variety of uses - from game development to business applications. A student with any level of proficiency in Java will be able to deepen their skills using console applications, solving programming problems within the course.

The program contains the following modules:

• Java Project Encoding
• Using arrays, loops, if statements
• Definition of variables, data types, classes
• Solving programming problems using algorithms, coding.

Java Coding & Game Development

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

The Java Coding & Game Development program offers to work at the intersection of coding, graphics, use Java, learn the basics of programming, creating arcade games. Participants will go beyond text programs and create visual effects using a processing library. Original graphics that go beyond console programs will allow you to create a portfolio that is attractive to colleges.

Students will learn:

• Java game programming
• Defining variables, if statements, loops, classes, constructors
• Create graphics, animations using Processing
• Game Design Basics
• Solution of programming problems (algorithms, coding).

Code Apps with C ++

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

Program participants will learn the basics of C ++, one of the most important programming languages in the world, master applications covering the design of system software, game development. C ++ opens the door to the vast world of coding, development, no matter what you want to create. Using their new coding skills, students will create projects, experience their knowledge in practical sessions, during an interview.

Course Outline:

• Using Variables
• Work with strings, characters, algorithms
• Solving programming problems
• Responses to user request.

Develop & Code Games with C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Programming, game development
• Software: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio Community.

After mastering C ++, students will be able to take games to a higher level by introducing new images. Using graphic libraries, they will create their own arcade games in one of the most popular programming languages in the world, focus on the implementation of controls for basic artificial intelligence, keyboard, mouse, collision detection for the interaction of game elements. Participants will begin a career in gaming programming using the standard edition of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition.

Young people will learn:

• Using Variables
• The use of symbols, algorithms
• Using graphic libraries to add visual effects
• Response to user input.

Take-Home Autonomous Arduino Robot & Sensor Kit

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Robotics
• Equipment: Sphero RVR with an advanced set of sensors.

Summer shift Take-Home Autonomous Arduino Robot & Sensor Kit offers to explore autonomous robotics with the Sphero RVR, a durable, versatile, programmable robot that is ready to work right after installation. Sphero RVR has many built-in sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road protectors that take into account individual characteristics. This is a new level of interaction between hardware, practical robotics, and engineering.

Classes include:

• Using Sphero RVR to learn coding techniques, robotics
• Reading Sensor Data
• Creating basic AI behavior
• Application of programming logic, machine learning.

Autonomous Robotics with Take-Home Sphero RVR

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

Participants will get acquainted with the world of autonomous robotics, master Sphero RVR, a durable, universal, programmable robot that is ready to work immediately after installation. Designed with individual features in mind, the Sphero RVR has many built-in sensors, a professional-level control system and a powerful engine in combination with tread patches. This is more than your usual programmable bot - this is a new level of practical robotics, engineering, interaction with hardware.

The program offers:

• Using Sphero RVR to learn coding techniques, robotics
• Reading data from sensors
• The formation of the basic behavior of artificial intelligence
• Using programming logic.

Robotics Engineering & Coding Lab with VEX

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

Course participants gain real robotics skills through the VEX Robotics design system. They will be able to create, configure, connect the base of their robot, monitor its work, introduce corrections. This training course involves teamwork that allows you to adapt the robot to participate in dynamic, user-driven tasks. Using VEX Coding Studio, VEX C ++, a language of robotic coding, teenagers will program the bot to perform autonomous tasks (navigating in the maze, stacking / moving objects).

The course includes:

• Choosing the right gear ratios to create speed, torque
• Implementation of analog, digital sensors
• 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.

Participants will discover the fast-growing world of 3D printing, create complex 3D models using Autodesk Maya, and design moving parts. Pupils will go through all the cycles of the printing process from beginning to end: they will learn the correct maintenance procedures, safety, replace the filament, clean, prepare the assembly plate to get the best possible print. Students will see how their prints take shape layer by layer, turn on the engine to see how their designs come to life.

Study results:

• Complete all steps of the 3D printing process
• Using best practices for efficient 3D printing, troubleshooting printing
• Work in 3D space, design of 3D models
• Create moving 3D printed models.

Snapchat Filters & 3D Modeling with Maya

• 13-17 l.
• Creative
• Software: Autodesk Maya, Snapchat Lens Studio.

Snapchat provides an unprecedented opportunity to share visual moments with friends, family from anywhere in the world. Using Autodesk Maya, participants will design models, small characters, or props. Snapchat Lens Studio will help you create your own AR filters to turn portraits into pencil drawings, impressionist paintings, and develop animated moving images. Combining the imagination, the possibilities of Snapchat, the power of Autodesk Maya, students will expand their creative capabilities.

The objectives of the program:

• Using modeling tools
• The practice of modeling methods for the gaming environment
• Adding lighting, materials
• Creating Snapchat Filters
• Translation of visual images into effective 3D-models.

Digital Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel

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

Digital Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel participants will be able to realize innovative ideas, create video blogs, conduct game broadcasts, study guides, provide their own online presence, and produce videos. Participants will take pictures on professional equipment, use Adobe Premiere. Advanced students can improve their skills with Adobe After Effects and join forces to create a YouTube channel that attracts subscribers.

Course Features:

• Gain experience with professional equipment, including DSLR cameras
• Editing video, audio tracks
• Using screen capture software.

Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube

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

At the Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube course, students will learn the stages of production by planning, scrambling their digital videos, and then working together with their colleagues, making a film on professional equipment. Using the capabilities of Adobe Premiere, students will edit clips, add their own animated images, special effects, master Adobe After Effects.

The program allows you to:

• Use professional equipment including DSLR cameras
• Edit video, audio tracks, use camera software
• Develop special effects, animation.

Pit Crew: Robotics with Your Own Sphero RVR

• Robotics, Creative
• Tools: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

Participants will discover their inventive skills with the Sphero RVR, a revolutionary autonomous robot equipped with a wide range of functions. Newcomers, robotics experts are interested in working with RVR, its complete set of sensors, a professional-level control system that solves the main tasks.

Course Outline:

• Using Sphero RVR to learn coding and robotics
• Programming a robot to complete tasks
• Creating the basic behavior of artificial intelligence.

Print Shop: 3D Printing for Physical Devices

• Robotics, Creative
• Equipment: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

From prostheses to rocket engine parts, objects created using 3D printing are used by countless industries - the possibilities for developing this area are endless. Girls will use Autodesk Maya to design, create complex three-dimensional models, use a 3D printer. They will learn about safety precautions, maintenance rules, and see how a printed model appears. At the final stage, the students will connect their models to an electric motor, will observe how their creations come to life.

Course Outline:

• Learning the 3D Printing Process
• Using the best practices for the effective creation of 3D printing, eliminating defects in prints
• Work in 3D space, design of 3D models
• Create moving 3D models.

Jam Band: Digital Music Creation

• Creative
• Features: Digital Music Kit.

Students of the Jam Band: Digital Music Creation course will reveal their inner composing potential through the creation of electronic music. Girls will work in any genre, from EDM, synthpop to dreampop. Participants will use professional software to create their own rhythms, bringing them to the studio level.

The program will enable:

• Learn the basics of creating digital music
• Work with external audio equipment
• Edit and create audio tracks with software.

Art Gallery: Creative Design with Adobe Animate

• Creative
• Software: Adobe Creative Suite.

The broad-based program Art Gallery: Creative Design with Adobe Animate will allow you to engage in any project using a full set of creative Adobe products, including Adobe Animate. Pupils will master the basics of composition, critical thinking, design skills, and develop creative thinking.

Classes allow you to learn:

• Design art and animation using the basics of drawing
• Wacom Professional Drawing Tablets
• Practice online marketing
• Replenishment of the digital portfolio.

3D Studio: Snapchat Filter Animation with Maya

• Creative
• Tools: Autodesk Maya, Snapchat Lens Studio.

Students will begin to study 3D modeling with Autodesk Maya, the standard for creating animations, models. Participants will turn models, animations into entertaining filters that can be shared around the world. Snapchat Lens Studio allows you to effectively create AR, focus on creating a meaningful message, developing a personal visual style. With Snapchat reach and Autodesk Maya's power, creativity is unlimited.

Learning Content:

• Using polygon and curve modeling tools
• Development of methods for modeling the environment, hard surfaces
• Creating Snapchat Filters
• Adding lighting, materials
• Create successful 3D models.

Photo Booth: Pro Photography for Instagram

• Creative
• Equipment: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, DSLR cameras.

Pupils will create perfect shots, complement their own portfolio, learn the principles of photography to capture the world around them with a digital SLR camera, use the basics of editing to enhance your images using Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. Young girls will be able to post photos online, form a personal brand or other variant of Internet presence.

Course Outline:

• Shooting Using a DSLR Camera
• Change exposure using aperture, ISO settings
• Editing Images Using Photoshop
• Create an Instagram gallery of portrait / landscape photography.

Film Studio: Video Production for YouTube

• Creative
• Tools: Adobe Premiere, YouTube.

Creating video blogs, tutorials, short videos using professional-grade cameras, Adobe software, learning the basics of filming, editing, will launch the YouTube channel. Participants will complete the week with projects uploaded to YouTube, share them with friends, family.

Summer training will allow:

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

Program Gameplay Mechanics with Unreal Engine 4

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, game technology
• Tools: Unreal Engine 4.

Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4 allows you to push the boundaries, create unique games, working with the full set of tools Unreal Engine 4 - the leading game engine that is used to create award-winning games. Teens will learn how to develop traditional types of games - FPS, platformers, racing games, use Blueprints, a visual programming language, to change and create game events (moving platforms, control points). Participants will be able to develop design skills, take the first practical steps towards a career as a game developer.

Study results:

• Game Level Creation
• Filling the playing space with actors
• Using Blueprints, Unreal Engine's Visual Programming Language to Implement Game Mechanics
• Developing player interaction skills
• Obtaining the necessary skills of game design.