Minecraft is a game with simple graphics and a blocky appearance. In the world of Minecraft coding for kids, you use different 1×1 types of blocks to make everything from a building to a flower. Minecraft was originally written in Java and later in C++ and other languages like Python, and is one of the […]
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In the Part 1 of this article, we learnt that devices connect with each other using different wired ports. Each of these ports are either serial or parallel in communications. Within the serial and parallel communications, we have different protocols (ways) of communication. Let’s say we want to send 8 bits of data from one
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Roblox coding for kids refers to the process of kids writing code and developing interactive games with multiple characters, objects and graphics using the Roblox Studio Editor. Roblox is essentially a platform in which multiple resources are provided and using those resources kids will develop their own multi-player three dimensional games. Kids will learn the
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Coding As A Playground is a book on how young children can build cognitive and social emotional skills by engaging in learning computer programming and computational thinking. The book is authored by Marina Umaschi Bers, Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and she co-developed the Scratch Jr. programming language in
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Computers use binary code to communicate all information, and we have a fun way to teach binary code to kids. Binary code is a stream of 1’s and 0’s. A byte has 8 bits with 1’s and 0’s. Alphabets are also represented using binary code in computers. For example, capital A, shown in binary code
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Computer Science has literally changed the world forever in the last 30 years. And coding for kids has actually become as essential as mathematics for kids in today’s world. It is probably appreciated a bit more because it enforces kids to learn mathematics practically, while mathematics itself sometimes most of us don’t learn practically at
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Computer Science is a beautiful subject that has many areas of knowledge that a child will start to learn, and it has mathematics well intertwined in it. Introducing various coding courses for kids is absolutely fine and in fact essential, but putting too much pressure on them is not. We typically have students start with
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IOI is an International Olympiad Competition in Informatics (Computer Science). Each country sends 4 participants to this international competition with 1 or 2 participants as reserves. Each country has their own process on how they select these top 4 participants that represent the respective country at the IOI. Each country has a series of qualifying
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If your child is starting coding, then should your child start with Scratch or Python (block-based) or JavaScript (block-based)?
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When we write a program in any language, we declare a lot of variables, arrays, objects in various sections of the program such as the main function, global section, classes, functions, methods, etc. These variables need some space in the Random Access Memory (RAM). So, where are they stored? These variables are stored in two