by cgarcia | Jan 12, 2021 | Competitions
So far, the only team programming competition on the platform was the Codeathlon, in which participants compete in clans of a maximum of six students each. However, the end of 2020 has left us a novelty that has come to change this situation: Clash of Codes is a new...
by cgarcia | Dec 21, 2020 | Activities
– Logo from 6 to 9 years old: Max Delgado – Logo from 10 to 12 years old: Isolda Murcia – Scratch from 10 to 12 years old: Abril Codinach Click on the image to access the Scratch project – Scratch from 13 to 18 years old: Alba Pérez Click on...
by cgarcia | Dec 15, 2020 | Computational Thinking, Video games
Video games are increasingly popular and the video game industry has grown so much in recent years that it is bigger than the movie and music industry combined. Despite the risks resulting from the misuse of video games, the fear of having too much screen time and the...
by cgarcia | Dec 7, 2020 | Education, Video games
In 2009, the Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson launched Minecraft, an open-world game that stood out for its functionality and the multitude of things that could be done in this world: it is not a video game that sets specific goals, but rather all...
by cgarcia | Dec 1, 2020 | Computational Thinking, Programming
Programming is the process of communicate with a machine in its language in order to make it do what we want. Thanks to programming we can create software, which means we can create all the applications we use on computers, smartphones and most of modern machines. The...
