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Hour of Code Links

Click on the link below and scroll down to Hour of Code for All Ages.
Choose an activity you'd like to try. Remember to take turns with your partner!

Here are the links from Tuesday's lesson:

Flappy Birds - you get to actually program the game. I like how it introduces event based programming and thus multiple blocks of code.

Frozen - this is a slightly more advanced project than the star wars one or the minecraft one, because it teaches the kids how functions can be given some direction (like how far to go forward).  

Minecraft:

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