The hour of code (Tobi Schweiger - Derek Von Keisenberg)

In the past week, we have been working in a website called Khan Academy. There, we worked in the so named ,,The hour of code". We learned how to code by doing projects like doing a snowman or an animal or we had to watch videos and read texts. . The whole class had a lot of fun and some, including me, also worked with it at home and kept progressing.

Every time you finish an excercise, you receive points and sometimes even medals. With these points, you can evolve your avatar or just compete with your mates. It is a really fun and entertaining way to learn more about coding. In tobi´s case, he gained 13.000 points because he completed the hour of code 100%. Tobi also got 8 medals altogether. 4 of them are "challenge medals" and the other four are " meteorite medals". Tobi also got the second evolution of the avatar, which you get once you have at least 10.000 points.
Derek instead has also 13 thousands points and the same evolution of avatar, but our projects are very different from each other.

At the end of the post we left a video, where "The hour of code" is explained and introduced and a tutorial explaining how to do circles with coding.

                                         

Altogether we did 3 projects. One of them was to do a self portrait using the coding, other was to create any animal we wanted to and then was the so called: “ Project: Super snowman” and other called: "Wild animal". Under this paragraph we left two screenshots we took of the snowman and the penguin we created with coding. I chose this two projects, because we found them the most entertaining ones to do.

But some of the tasks were also either read helpful texts or watch videos that also helped with the coding. Altogether we completed 16 tasks. It took us around 1 hour, maybe a bit more. But the important thing is, that everyone can do it because it is not that difficult to do and understand. But it is important that if you decide to do “the hour of code”, you have to read the texts and watch the videos in order to understand better.

Tutorial to learn how to make circles with coding

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Introduction video to the hour of code.