Cool Tips & Tricks

You’ll often have to rearrange code and experiment with the sequence of your code. Tynker code blocks have “handles” on their left and right side that...

Use the Search 🔎 feature in the Code Palette to find the code block you need fast. Search also finds places in your project where you’re already usin...

Find an unfamiliar block? Click on any block to get a description of its behavior. Click on More Help to get a longer description and code examples yo...

Do you want to share code among different projects? Or just need to try a quick experiment? You can use the Backpack feature to save Actors or Scripts...

Have you ever written so much code that it goes beyond your computer screen’s window? Try the new Code Navigator to help you navigate your longest Tyn...

Working with actor properties is like a Tynker superpower, once you get the hang of it. Here’s how you can use the Actor Properties block, which ret...

Tired of "duplicating actors" or "copy pasting" all the time? Clones are a fast and easy way to create enemies, powerups, or other recurring program e...

Have you noticed that the code blocks’ shapes give you a hint about the kind of data they return? True-and-false values in Tynker take a diamond shape...

Several code blocks, like if-else and join , can be expanded. You can use the (+) button to add more branches or inputs. Then use (-) to remove...

At the top of the Coding Area the actor currently in focus appears with a ▶ button beside its name. Click it and watch what happens: An editable view...

While you can use the coordinate system to place actors, you can also place them relative to the screen itself, using blocks like screen left and s...

A special timer variable has been provided to make timekeeping easy. You can reset it using this block. Here is some sample code that displays how l...

A greeting card can be a fun and engaging way to get students started in the Tynker Block Workshop. You can find a greeting card project in three diff...

The link to the Class Showcase is a public page that is accessible to anyone. This page can be tweeted or shared with anyone on a social network. The ...

Each Tynker lesson plan contains a detailed look at the activities students will participate in within the Tynker lesson. The lesson plans can be acce...

All Tynker projects can be opened or created and then saved to the teacher's My Projects page. From there teachers can assign the projects. If teac...