To Infinity and Beyond!

This collaborative playground was designed to help children with mild autism, ADHD, and dyslexia with reading comprehension and organizational skills. As many of these children have innate characteristics that make them natural-born coders, such as their ability to hyperfocus and see problems differently, coding is a natural medium to help these children with the difficulties they face. This plagyround uses SpriteKit, CoreML’s Vision API, Grand Central Dispatch, and UIKit to teach kids with learning disabilities these skills

Some Notes from Mission Control

In this playground, two coders have recently both bought their very own planets. Together they will go on a joyride through space to check out their new real estate.

(Demo: https://youtu.be/zBj5TAtRp2M?t=52s)

Basic Instructions

Here are some tips to make sure your journey goes as smoothly as possible:

• Ensure only one person is looking at the screen at any point of time, unless otherwise noted. That way you'll be able to watch out for unexpected asteroids coming your way!
• Before passing the keyboard back to your partner, scroll up the playground page so the top of the Comment Template borders the top of the computer screen. Because fuel is limited on this mission, it is important that you code efficiently. Writing good Comment Templates and making them visible to your partner will accomplish this.

Credits

Songs

• "Star Wars Main Title and Arrival at Naboo" - London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, & New London Children's Chior
• "Minions - Banana Song" - Dream Soundtracks
• "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Main Title" - Dennis McCarthy, Jerry Goldsmith
• "Theme from 001(Also Spracht Zarathustra)" - London Philharmonic Orchestra

Code

• "SKButtonNode" (https://github.com/bajtyngier/SKButtonNode/blob/master/SKButtonNode/SKButtonNode/SKButtonNode.swift) - Konrad Bajtyngier