Coding with Minecraft at the i360!
Andrew Riley-Watson
A summary
Hello everyone!
This February half-term we're back at the iconic i360 on Brighton's seafront, for our popular coding and electronics with Minecraft workshops for young people.
We're here in collaboration with the i360 and the Brighton Science Festival, which is organising fun science-based events all over town during half term. Have a look at what else is going on:
https://brightonscience.com/
We'll be here at the i360 on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th February this year.
What will we be doing?
We’ll introduce 'Physical Computing' - the idea of using code to control physical objects, vitally important in real world computer science, where we expect programs to receive and process data from all kind of real-world sensors. You’ll learn how to connect LEDs, buzzers and switches to a Raspberry Pi computer, and program them using Python.
Next we’ll learn how to control Minecraft using Python, finally adding some real-world devices to our Minecraft code. Here, there will be a strong focus on 'play', and we hope you'll will come up with some interesting ways to combine the various devices.
All in two hours!
The session is a fast-paced headlong dive into Python and the development environment used in the real world to develop code. We’ll combine this with the Minecraft game, which many children will be very familiar with. We’ll also introduce the overarching philosophy of learning to code.
After using Python to control the basics of Minecraft, we’ll move to building all kinds of Minecraft structures with code, learning Python syntax, variables, loops and a bit of theory along the way.
You'll use industry-standard coding environments and methods, learning from people who do this every day!
If you're aged 9 or older, you'll probably manage this. If you're younger, you might need some help with all the typing. We move along pretty fast, and the last thing we want is to put off our younger coders. So, 9 and up usually works well.
Take a look at the rest of this listing for more about us and our philosophy.
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Andrew Riley-Watson
Effie Riley-Watson
Maria Campos
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