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Look How Far We've Come

Semester Review — Spring 2026

6 weeks. 5 lessons. 11 games. 1 real website. 1 scheduling tool. Let's look back at everything we've built together.

Our Journey

Week 1 How the Web Works — The Internet is a giant pizza place
Week 2 Software Dev Life Cycle — Mission Control & the 6 phases
Week 3 Multiplayer — WebRTC, room codes, and co-op play
Week 4 Building a Real Website — Blue Moon Ice Cream goes live
Week 5 Constraint Solving — Using a computer to plan a fair tournament
Week 6 Today! — Look back, celebrate, and play
By the Numbers

Our Semester in Stats

51,000+
Lines of Code
167
Files Created
11
Games Built
67
Slides Presented
152
Sprite Assets
5
Lessons Taught

That's more code than most adults will ever write! And 3 new games just today!

Game Showcase

11 Games We Built

Vertical Shooter
5 themes • Multiplayer
Cat Classroom
By Layla
Gorilla Beat-Up
By Hudson
Firewall Escape
By Sawyer
Tockins Golf
By Thomas
Duck Hunt
Retro Shooter
Safe Cracker
Puzzle
Bush vs Wolves
Pac-Man Style
Wind Turbine Repair
By Grady
Baseball
By Hudson
Home Run Derby
By Sawyer

7 student-designed games + 4 class projects = 44,900+ lines of game code

Blue Moon
Ice Cream Shoppe
Port Austin, MI
Real World

A Real Website for a Real Business

We didn't just learn about websites — we built one. The 5th grade class created a website for Blue Moon Ice Cream Shoppe in Port Austin.

You picked the domain name, planned the pages, and helped design it — and it's live on the internet.

1,836 lines of HTML, CSS, and PHP

Skills Unlocked

Things You Can Now Explain

How the Internet Works
HTML & CSS
JavaScript
PHP (Server-Side)
Databases
Debugging & Testing
Git & GitHub
Deployment (CI/CD)
WebRTC Networking
Constraint Solving
AI-Assisted Development
Web Security (HTTPS)
Vocabulary

Words You Didn't Know 6 Weeks Ago

Server

A computer that serves web pages — the kitchen

Bug

When code does something it shouldn't

Deploy

Sending code from your computer to the world

Constraint

A rule the computer must follow while solving

WebRTC

Tech that lets browsers talk directly to each other

Domain

Your website's address (like a street address)

CI/CD

Robots that auto-deploy your code when you push

API

How programs talk to each other behind the scenes

Highlight Reel

Greatest Hits

Discovered real bugs in the Vertical Shooter — and fixed them live
Played the shooter in multiplayer co-op for the first time
Built a real website for a real ice cream shop
Beat a real basketball tournament schedule with a constraint solver
5 students designed 7 games from scratch
Code Scoreboard

Lines of Code Scoreboard

Vertical Shooter
12,508
Gorilla Beat-Up
8,539
Tockins Golf
8,013
Baseball
4,344
Bush vs Wolves
3,363
Duck Hunt
1,872
Blue Moon
1,836
Cat Classroom
1,650
Firewall Escape
1,510
Wind Turbine Repair
1,182
Safe Cracker
1,179
Home Run Derby
757
Student Spotlight

You Designed These

Five students came up with game ideas, described what they wanted, and watched them come to life.

Layla

Cat Classroom — catch 10 cats before time runs out

Hudson

Gorilla Beat-Up + Baseball — 2 games, 12,800+ lines

Sawyer

Firewall Escape + Home Run Derby — 2 games!

Thomas

Tockins Golf — 5 themed courses with upgrades

Grady

Wind Turbine Repair — 3D exploration with mini-games

That's the Software Development Life Cycle in action — idea, design, build, test, deploy!

What's Next

Where Do We Go From Here?

More Games

New ideas, new genres, new challenges — what game do YOU want to make next?

Better Designs

Sprites, animations, sound effects — make your games look and feel amazing

AI Skills

Get even better at describing what you want to build — the #1 skill of the future

Share Your Work

Everything you build is live on the web for family and friends to see

You're Warrior Coders

6 weeks ago, most of you had never written a line of code.

Now you can explain how the internet works, describe the software life cycle, build multiplayer games, create real websites, solve puzzles with constraint algorithms, and design your own games from scratch.

Today's Mission

Play all 11 games. Try to beat each other's high scores. Show your friends what you built this semester!

See you next semester!