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Very useful

Got my 12 year old daughter enrolled in a 2 week "online camp" for Java coding, after much of deliberation.
Pleased to say - she made the most of it and has found it very useful !
Definitely recommend it !!!

Python Coder

My 11yr old son really enjoyed the Python Coder course. This course was recommended as he had already worked out Minecraft Redstone engineering himself. Before the course he was intrigued but concerned everyone else would know more than him. I explained this to Funtech and they were very appro...

My 11yr old son really enjoyed the Python Coder course. This course was recommended as he had already worked out Minecraft Redstone engineering himself. Before the course he was intrigued but concerned everyone else would know more than him. I explained this to Funtech and they were very approachable and offered a 10 min taster session so he could see how it worked and maybe talk about Minecraft - which he didn't want to do but was happy about the course. There were only 3 on the course.

A few weeks later, my son did the Python Game Developer course. There were 8 on the course, and straight away, my son felt out of his depth and was lost. I think he was too shy to ask for help, When I explained this to Funtech mid course, they offered 1-2-1 consolidation course in the afternoon, but my son was too lost by then and not interested. Funtech kindly offered Java Coder instead, which my son started, felt a lot better about, still needed a consolidation afternoon and chose not to continue the course.

To conclude, I think the course and opportunity is great. Funtech really did everything they could to make sure my son felt some level of success, growing on from his experience of the Python Coder course. It may be some children are overwhelmed or don't feel they can ask for help, and so it was a shame that I wasn't aware of the potential consolidation lessons until it was too late on the Python Game Developer course, especially as another boy had one, a boy who attended the same Python Coder course as my son. In my son's case, I know he would feel shame if he showed he had fallen behind and so was not equipped confidence-wise to ask for help in front of others. Funtech did tell me that not everyone likes the style/format of teaching, hence their offer of the consolidation lessons which really goes a very long way to hopefully provide an element of success int heir learning.

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Review for Funtech

The course was overall quite good because it taught many parts of python and all in an entertaining way. These included allowing for customization for the enemies and ships as well as adding functions not included in the standard game. This created a game that felt like your own game and not just...

The course was overall quite good because it taught many parts of python and all in an entertaining way. These included allowing for customization for the enemies and ships as well as adding functions not included in the standard game. This created a game that felt like your own game and not just one created from instructions.

The experience was nice as the teacher was ready to help and everyone was mostly doing the same things.

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Funtech Python coder

The majority of the course was good and I learnt a lot from it. However, there were a lot of applications to install and some took a long time to install. I enjoyed creating my own sprites and sounds and the course was easy to follow.

Fun , Interesting and challenging

The course has been both exciting and suprising. I cannot believe the fun i had. the teacher really payed attention to all of us equally. I find it very amusing that all of the things we did can be done with scratch. It was very exciting getting to work with scratch. and it's very nice knowing t...

The course has been both exciting and suprising. I cannot believe the fun i had. the teacher really payed attention to all of us equally. I find it very amusing that all of the things we did can be done with scratch. It was very exciting getting to work with scratch. and it's very nice knowing that other people are new to this too. I hope that everyone will see this thing I see about the course.

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The summary of Funtech course

I loved taking part in this course and I am so glad I took part in it. I am also grateful for this opportunity that my birthday could also take part in this course. My favorite project was all of them. I am so sad this course is over. I have learn't a lot and after all I would definitely recommen...

I loved taking part in this course and I am so glad I took part in it. I am also grateful for this opportunity that my birthday could also take part in this course. My favorite project was all of them. I am so sad this course is over. I have learn't a lot and after all I would definitely recommend this course. So best hope we might meet again after Covid19

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Amazing

It was really fun but my computer was glitched so i could not do things sometimes

Python course 10/08/2020 - 21/08/2020 review

So to begin with, I thought python was... difficult. this course changed my mind hands down. python is actually fun, especially when you make a loop where 160000+ numbers were produced in the console :D. That I think was the most satisfying thing in my life ;-) . So when the course started, I act...

So to begin with, I thought python was... difficult. this course changed my mind hands down. python is actually fun, especially when you make a loop where 160000+ numbers were produced in the console :D. That I think was the most satisfying thing in my life ;-) . So when the course started, I actually expected to go to the actual programming straight away. However it took nearly two hours to do so, and in that time I was watching python videos. At that point I was sceptical, saying that python was boring and then I was told that it takes time to get into the real thing. the other reason I found it boring was actually later, and that was because the sound was too low. I also had to change laptops, because the other one wouldn't launch and I think the reason why I fell behind was mostly because I couldn't hear. But it still took some time to understand that this was a first shot, and things could get better. So over the following days, reviews started to look positive. At this point I still didn't understand that yesterday it took time to get where I was and without it I wouldn't have come to this.
The reason I didn't take a star off this review for this reason is because on the fourth or fifth day I finally realised that on the first day I should have had the thought that you must make the most of it because it will benefit you further in the course. Then when loops started I started laughing about how many numbers I could generate and scroll through. I was thinking if python will crash. It DID. Hahaha. My reviews were really pleasing, and it was mostly about laughing.

However, the not-so-amazing things have to also be pointed out.

- A half star was taken off because the videos were very basic, and I felt that their pace was clear, but slow. This is not a significant downside, and it is minor, but I thought I should point it out.

- Another half star was taken off because although the video explained well, I just felt that it didn't get me thinking enough, and I remember only a couple of programs. Again this is not severe, but I do know that FunTech doesn't have too many options when teaching, but again, it was significant enough to point out.

Overall, apart from a few nitpick things here and there, and also that I knew the first day was boring for a reason, I am really happy with this lesson

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I learnt so much

I really enjoyed the course and learnt lots about coding that i didn't know about. I found when I needed help that the tutor went through it thouroghly until I understood it. Overall the course was really fun and I learnt how to code in scratch and even made my first game

Funtech Camp

Today is last day of funtech I was so happy today because w get to do whatever we like and this week we did so many stuff and learned so many stuff.
I WILL REALLY MISS YOU TIARNAN.

By Shingo Y

Byee see you maybe in October holiday camps or winter camps

Good course

I liked it, not much to say about it really

my review on funtech

i found fun tech a great experience and i would definitely do it again. i have been able to do everything that i had in my head and i think that is amazing. the classes as well are not too big and that i agree with it because it makes it quicker and easier. i have recommend this too all my fri...

i found fun tech a great experience and i would definitely do it again.
i have been able to do everything that i had in my head and i think that is amazing.
the classes as well are not too big and that i agree with it because it makes it quicker and easier.
i have recommend this too all my friends and they say it looks cool.
the only downside was that i didn't get to do all the options they had and on the last 3 days there was plenty of time and i slowly ran out of ideas.
i found this amazing.
Lyra

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hard but fun

this course i enjoyed branching of the python i knew before, even though at times it was confusing or hard, i had fun

My review

I have really enjoyed this course. I have had problems, and the staff helped me to solve it. Loved it!

Python coder, Good course, those with certain learning difficulties may struggle

Good course, my daughter learnt lots of code for User interface creation. But did struggle with her slow auditory processing speed and dyslexia on this course as very tutor verbal describe and text type heavy. Being asked to type certain words in the script or create folders with certain name...

Good course, my daughter learnt lots of code for User interface creation.
But did struggle with her slow auditory processing speed and dyslexia on this course as very tutor verbal describe and text type heavy.

Being asked to type certain words in the script or create folders with certain names is also problematic if you don't know how to spell them.

But overall she enjoyed it despite these issues.

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Real Good Fun

It was real good fun but boring at times when having to the the trigger able blueprints but everything else was really fun.

Funtech

Funtech is a fun camp full of challenges and inventing new entity's and new worlds on MCreator

Funtech review

the funtech course was really fun even though on a few accasions i struggled with my concentration, in the last two days i was in a 1 to 1 and i got loads done it it really helped me to understand all types oflists and loops.

A fun programming course

A great experience and I would recommend it to other people to try. It was a bit strange on the remote learning though.

henry review

I think the course was well presented and it was all quick apart from the first day. I have learnt how to make your own games and I know enough now to a game by myself.

Funtech

The course was really fun! We got to learn how to make games and got an insight to game-making. We made a spaceship shooter game which is very fun. We learned lots of new techniques in python that may help us in our future. Altogether it was a very fun course

End of Course Review

The course was very thorough and went through all of the units in detail. It was tiring, but a very useful course, as I was only beginning Python.

good

the last day is the best as you are free to do what you want. i believe that we should have more time on our own things

Quite fun

It fun and teaches you computer science quite fun would definitely recommend

Review :)

It was quite a fun camp and was organised very well, I liked this one more than the python beginner course. And the Tutor (Matthew or Matt ) was very helpful and I think he explained things quite well.

great course

the course is great for children who have some prior experience of python coding, and has lots of aspects that can be individualised

redstone

Overall I found the corse really good and fun. It was really engaging and i feel i have learnt a lot. i would come back.

this summer camp was amazing!

the mods was brilliant! Wasif was an amazing tutor and taught us all the things that I wanted to know . My favourite day was the animation because it looks brilliant to have animated blocks and items.

Roblox

it was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot although I did get annoyed some of the time we learnt how to do a lot of stuff in Roblox studio

I really enjoyed this course

I really enjoyed this. I liked how we went through everything in detail and it helped me to learn and memorise the different types of codes and functions. Sometimes it went quite slow but the challenges and the end of each topic made it alot more fun and really made me feel like i was learning alot

FunTech Review

It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot but sometimes it wasn't so fun or something was too tricky. I particularly enjoyed the challenges.

funtech review

really really fun, it was the best

Great course for beginners

The course had a good pace, and wasn't too fast. Sometimes the basics could have been explained a bit faster and there could have been more time taken on the difficult parts, but in the end, everything was covered, and it was fun to complete projects at the end.

It was really good.

It was nice to learn code that is near python. It was more challenging and i did get confused but after it was explained it was better and it was easier.

it was great

it was good but i lost my word and i loved command blocks and ocolater

really fun

it was really good but i think we did a bit too much on logic gates

Its a Brillant coures!

I would do it again and my Tutor made it fun. Over all I liked the coures! Nothing comes to mind about what I didn't like about it. And I liked this coures and in the future will probally do another coures but somthing difffernt I liked making the games and the story making. I dont think I ha...

I would do it again and my Tutor made it fun. Over all I liked the coures!
Nothing comes to mind about what I didn't like about it.
And I liked this coures and in the future will probally do another coures but somthing difffernt
I liked making the games and the story making. I dont think I had a least favourite part
My Tutor was AMAZING a super coures!! I think I would do another coures again.

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Summary of my thoughts

The whole course was very informative, with the tutors always there to help anyone who was struggling. The tasks were engaging but maybe there could have been more extension tasks to do.

A difficult helpful course

This pygame course was difficult but taught me a lot of meanings and left me with pages of code i can reference back on. It taught us how to solve some common errors and by the end on the extensions we did some interesting stuff like making our own sprites, backgrounds and our enemies to shoot. I...

This pygame course was difficult but taught me a lot of meanings and left me with pages of code i can reference back on. It taught us how to solve some common errors and by the end on the extensions we did some interesting stuff like making our own sprites, backgrounds and our enemies to shoot. It was an interesting and helpful course in general but felt a bit slow at some points.

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FUN

It was great but not the best in the world but FUN

Good course

I liked the course and it was very fun. I thought that the teacher could of gone a bit slower but the noise slowly went down. It was tricky on day one but it got easier over the days. Overall I enjoyed it.

very good

i would give it 4.5 but that does not work. it was fun and i learnt lots:)

it was fun

at first it was slow but it. got better.

roblox studio course

I found that I learn lots in this course about how to make objects and scripting it to do something.

Reveiw

it was very fun and I learned a lot of things and the tutor was very nice but the others students barely ever talked

It was fun.

The camp was really enjoyable, and we learnt a lot of Python. The tutors were very helpful, but still let you do it yourself. I would recommend it.

Review

Easy to follow along even if you are a beginner and enjoyable.

Fun and good result

Very good. I learnt lots and my game result was really good and it was fun. The tutor was very good, but he didn't offer extra lessons which other tutors have.

Lucas Review

i really enjoyed and learnt a lot about python and the game was fun. the only downside was when he was helping someone else and i had to wait for him to finish.

Minecraft redstone

My son had a really good time on the minecraft redstone camp and learnt a lot. He particularly enjoyed applying his skills to make a house full of redstone gadgets. Sometimes both he and I felt that too much content was being presented in a single session - particularly when learning about gate...

My son had a really good time on the minecraft redstone camp and learnt a lot. He particularly enjoyed applying his skills to make a house full of redstone gadgets. Sometimes both he and I felt that too much content was being presented in a single session - particularly when learning about gates. One thing which could usefully improve the camp would be having a pdf document with some notes to refer back to, both during the course and after it has finished.

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