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Does everyone need to learn programming?
You may think programming is too complicated for a child, but it is actually quite the contrary. Adults have often prejudices that difficult their learning process. Instead, children have a totally open attitude and are much more receptive, specially while using a learning method which is based on games. Moreover, learning programming has lots of benefits beyond being able to follow a STEM career, since it helps children developing transferable skills that are useful in any field such as computational thinking.
“La Serreta” and “the pros program” become the winners of the first Schrödinger activity.
«Phosphine on Venus. Is it possible to inhabit the planet?» was the headline starting the story of a group of scientists and their expedition to Venus to discover on the ground whether it would be possible for humans to live there or not. The arrival of the expedition to Venus is full of setbacks, the first of which is the impossibility of entering the Space Station. From that moment, the participating clans became part of the group of scientists and had to start making decisions that would lead them to overcome different challenges depending on their choices. These challenges were exercises including mathematics, logical thinking, basic programming ideas and other skills.
Christmas Contest
November is coming to an end, which means we can start thinking about Christmas. If you are one of our students you already know that we like to celebrate it with our Christmas Contest, so get ready to show us all your creativity and Christmas spirit. Students can participate by making three different types of content: drawing with Logo, programming a Christmas card with Scratch or filming a Video.
Codelearn recommendations: QualityLand, by Marc-Uwe Kling
Are you still surprised when an Instagram ad appears on your phone and offers you exactly what you were thinking of buying? What would you think if drones came at your house and brought you everything you want without having to ask for it? QualityLand has a system that knows us better than ourselves, where each person is assigned a level based on their personal and professional “success”, so that their work, their leisure options and even their personal relationships depend exclusively on the algorithms.
Codelearn students start launching their own projects
The Rocket’s dream is the first video game launched by Xavier Giralt, who was the first student enrolling in 2013. Seven years later, Xavier is 15 years old now and he’s still following the Codelearn method, which has helped him developing their video game and starting to build his new website, as he is currently learning Javascript in our online platform.