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

Morita and I work in the Technical Sales Department .
currently mainly in charge of sales activities for our company Beyond and the management of Kids Programming School Hack

Programming education for children has been a hot topic recently .

choice
but to ride
this big wave!

I actually tried out code.org 's Hour of Code , which is thought to be the most accessible programming learning content in the world

table of contents

• What is the Hour of Code?
• What types of Hour of Code are there?
• Trying out Minecraft's Hour of Code
• Thoughts on Minecraft's Hour of Code

What is Hour of Code?

Hour of Code is a web content program for promoting programming learning, organized by the American non-profit organization code.org

Its aim is to promote programming to people all over the world, and it is backed by founders such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, as well as major IT companies

Its features include:

• Used by over 100 million students in over 180 countries
• Anyone, anywhere can do it in an hour
• Ages 4 to 104 are eligible
• No experience necessary
• Almost anyone can try programming as long as they have a PC or tablet that can communicate via a browser

The ease of getting started is what makes it so appealing

◆What types of Hour of Code are there?

As of June 28, 2016, the content for all ages is as follows:

• minecraft
• Star Wars
• Frozen
• Big Hero 6

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 new content will be added in the future.
Today, let's try out Minecraft

◆ Try out Minecraft's Hour of Code

Let 's try it out. Open Minecraft

Clicking "Try it now" will take you to a tutorial video by Minecraft developer Jens.
Watching the video will help you understand how to use it.

Choose between Steve or Alex, characters familiar to anyone who has played Minecraft

Now let's program it.
Add a "move forward" block to get closer to the sheep.
Drag and drop the block and Steve will move accordingly.

You have successfully completed Puzzle 1.
You can also display the contents you have programmed with blocks as code.

As you progress through the stages, algorithms such as "repeat" and "if" will appear.
You'll be able to intuitively understand how you can organize the many blocks you've lined up up until now.

In the final stage, Puzzle 14, you can freely program.
Use as many blocks as you like from the previous stages.

Impressions of Minecraft's Hour of Code

Above all, it's easy to understand

Even children can get started right away.
The first hurdle in programming and "if," are combined with colorful blocks, making it easy to understand visually.

The theme is Minecraft, which children love

The stages redstone and creepers . Kids who love Minecraft will be able to play without getting bored.
Another attractive feature is that you can build freely in the final stage.

Amazing times have arrived

Hour of Code can be run on
PCs, tablets, and smartphones It also offers a variety of content in addition to Minecraft, which is what we tried this time.

What kind of things will the digital native generation, who learn through this kind of content and have been familiar with the internet and smartphones since their birth, create in the future?

our Kids Programming School Hack , we would like to support these children's activities in any way we can.

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