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Codelearn Special Weeks: Artificial Intelligence Tools
From January 20 to 24, Codelearn centers will host the first thematic week of the school year, which this year will focus on generative artificial intelligence tools. Throughout the week, we will talk about the origins of artificial intelligence, its evolution, and its applications today, discover some free applications, and use them to generate different types of content. To ensure we have understood the key concepts, we will also do a Kahoot at the centers on this topic.
Karel Challenge Online 2025
Waiting a whole year to enjoy our most exciting programming competition felt like too much, so this year we’ve decided to bring you the Karel Challenge Online earlier! The competition kicks off on January 27th and runs until February 22nd, the day of the finals. This online edition will also serve as a warm-up for the in-person competition, which will take place in May following its usual yearly schedule.
Frontend vs Backend: What’s the Difference?
Like in any other field, the tech and programming world is full of commonly used terms. Front-end and back-end are two of them, and in this article, we’ll explain and differentiate these concepts so they stop feeling overly technical or complex. Both are fundamental to developing websites and applications, but as we’ll see, they are easy to distinguish once we define them.
2024 Christmas Contest
From December 2nd to 15th, students will have a chance to show off their creativity by drawing with Logo, programming holiday postcards and video-games with Scratch, or editing a Christmas video.
Lose the fear and learn to code: debunking myths about programming
Halloween is just around the corner, and we know these days can be spooky for various reasons, but one thing that never scares us at Codelearn is learning to code. When it comes to programming, it’s common for people without any experience to think it’s a highly complicated field, or that only certain types of people can understand it. However, like many other skills, these fears often arise from misconceptions we’ve come to believe over time. So, this week, we want to explore some of the most common myths about programming and try to debunk them, proving that coding isn’t as mysterious as it seems and that anyone can learn it.