Target age 4 to 104 years old! I tried Minecraft's "Hour of Code" (programming)

Morita from the technical sales department .
Currently, I am mainly responsible for the sales activities of our company, Beyond, and the management of Kids Programming School, Hack

Programming education for children has been a hot topic lately .

I
have no choice but to ride
this big wave!

I actually tried Hour of Code from code.org , which is considered to be the most widely accessible programming learning content in the world

table of contents

• What is Hour of Code?
• What types of Hour of Code are there?
• Try out Minecraft's Hour of Code
• Minecraft Hour of Code Impressions

◆What is Hour of Code?

Hour of Code is web content for promoting programming learning, hosted by an American non-profit organization called code.org

It aims to promote programming to people around the world and is backed by founders such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, as well as major IT companies.

Features include:

• Used by over 100 million students in over 180 countries
• Anyone can do it anywhere in an hour
• For ages 4 to 104
• No experience required
• Almost anyone can try programming as long as they have a PC or tablet that can communicate with a browser.

The ease of getting started is appealing.

◆What types of Hour of Code are there?

As of June 28, 2016, content for all ages,

• minecraft
• star wars
• Frozen
• baymax

There is content such as.

Perhaps due to the support of major IT companies, there are a lot of big titles.

I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of content will be added in the future.
This time, let's try playing Minecraft

◆ Try out Minecraft's Hour of Code

Now let's try it out.
Open Minecraft right away

Click "Try now" to watch a tutorial video by Minecraft developer Jens.
You can easily understand the operation by watching the video.

Choose Steve or Alex, characters familiar to those who have played Minecraft.

Now let's do some programming.
Add a "go forward" block to get closer to the sheep.
Drag and drop blocks and Steve will move accordingly.

Great, you've cleared puzzle 1.
It is also possible to display the contents programmed in blocks as code.

As the stage progresses, algorithms such as "repeat" and "moshi" will appear.
It's easy to understand how you can organize blocks that you used to have in large numbers all at once.

You can freely program the final stage, Puzzle 14.
Use as many blocks as you like.

◆Minecraft Hour of Code Impressions

Easier to understand than anything else

Even children can start right away.
the first hurdles in programming such as "Loop" and "if", are combined with colorful blocks and can be visually understood.

The theme is Minecraft, which children love.

The stage is full of familiar characters and items such as
Redstone Creeper Children who like Minecraft will be able to continue playing without getting bored. It's also attractive that you can freely build on the final stage.

A great time has come

Hour of Code can be run
not only on PCs and tablets, but also on smartphones Also, there are various other contents besides Minecraft that I tried this time.

What kind of things will the digital native generation, who have studied with this kind of content and have been around since the birth of the Internet and smartphones, create in the future?

our Kids Programming School Hack , we would like to support children's activities even a little.

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