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Seattle CoderDojo News – August 31st

Posted on August 31, 2015August 30, 2015 by Greg Bulmash

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Tickets for the Scratch room and the Beginner / Independent Study room are available now: GET TICKETS HERE

Summer break is over. School’s back on. This will be the first of 11 weekly Dojo meetups between now and Thanksgiving.

Learn JavaScript Through Minecraft Modding

This is a 6-week workshop and tickets are good for all six weeks. Tickets are available now: GET TICKETS HERE

This workshop is intended for beginners. We will be using Minecraft as an environment for teaching JavaScript and we will start with the *basics*. Over the six weeks we will go from installing the modding environment and a simple “Hello World” to creating a pyramid made out of pigs… and more.

Requirements are simple:

1: Typing. We’re not expecting your child to do 60 words per minute, but if they hunt and peck at 3 words per minute, they’ll fall behind and get frustrated. If they need practice, the BBC has a great typing tutor program called Dance Mat Typing, which teaches typing like it’s a Dance Dance Revolution game.

2: Minecraft. Either a copy of the PC/Mac/Linux version of Minecraft or at least a free Mojang account.

3: Laptop. You’ll need a laptop with WiFi and the ability to install software on it. You’ll need the latest version of Oracle’s Java installed.

Command Line Chess with Python

Tickets are available now: GET TICKETS HERE

Instructor Chris is back with a 10-week workshop for advanced programmers, focused on creating a two-player command line implementation of chess.

Your child should be comfortable with the following concepts in any language:

  • variables
  • data types
  • for and while loops
  • conditionals
  • functions

Tickets are available now: GET TICKETS HERE

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