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Video game programming courses for kids and teens
Would you like to learn to code your own video games? In addition to our coding after-school program, we offer short courses on specific subjects. One of these subjects is video game programming and these are all our courses related to this field.
Registration open for the Codeathlon Winter Edition
Codeathlon Winter Edition starts on October 17 and you can now register your clan in the coding competition. The clans will face each other twice a week through the online platform, following the same dynamic of previous editions, although the face-to-face activities will be replaced by online special activities due to the current situation. The competition will finish on February 27.
Learning to code from scratch: the basics of programming
Once we decide we want to start learning to code it is normal to have lots of questions about it. What is the best programming language to start learning to code? There are lots of resources, which one should we use? Is it better to read books about programming or watching YouTube videos on how to program with Python? In short, we don’t know what the first steps are to get started in the world of programming.
Quarantine Contest Winners
We already know the winners of the Quarantine Contest, the Codelearn competition we launched to ask our students how they are experiencing lockdown. They had the chance to express themselves using three types of project: Logo, Scratch or video.
STEAM Education: developing computational thinking in schools
Computational thinking can be worked through programming, since learning to code is not only useful for people who want to work as software developers but it is a great tool to get ready for the future. Learning to program teaches us to think and helps us developing skills to solve problems of all kinds.