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Celebrate Hour of Code with These Quick Programming Activities

Celebrate Hour of Code with These Quick Programming Activities

It’s never been easier to jump into the world of computer science. This week is the perfect opportunity to learn programming for Hour of Code.

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Teach Your Kids to Code with One Hour of Minecraft Puzzles

Teach Your Kids to Code with One Hour of Minecraft Puzzles

Hour of Code is a workshop-based learning experience meant to introduce kids to the joy of coding.

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Electronic Windchimes, Physical Minecraft and 8 Other Slick MaKey MaKey Projects

Electronic Windchimes, Physical Minecraft and 8 Other Slick MaKey MaKey Projects

Get your MaKey MaKey from the Maker Shed and use this list of ten creative projects as inspiration for your own awesome interactive build.

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Using Scratch to Control Mindstorms Robots

Using Scratch to Control Mindstorms Robots

Clinton Blackmore wrote in to share Enchanting, a visual programming tool that uses Scratch (as well as LeJOS firmware on the NXT brick) to create a more intuitive and powerful interface than Lego’s Mindstorms software can manage. The software is free and open source, and is being developed for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

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Kinect with Scratch

Kinect hacker Stephen Howell has been hard at work producing a number of short demonstrations showing the possibilities of using the Scratch visual programming language with a Microsoft Kinect controller. How-to and examples are available on his site.

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