This Week in Learn to Code — 10/24/2014
Welcome to “This Week in Learn to Code!” If you’ve already begun to learn, this is a chance to pat yourself on the back for having made a great choice. If you haven’t started yet, now is a great time to start!
1. Learn and teach with games!
This article explores a Minecraft mod developed by a team from University of Texas. The mod aims to help players gain a deeper understanding of Materials Science — a natural extension of the Minecraft platform, which often calls upon players to harvest and combine materials to build tools / tech.
2. Gain valuable skills for any career!
This article from Forbes is about the author’s experience on a panel discussing advice for young people studying economics. The top piece of advice given? Learn to program.
3. Make a robot to do your homework for you!
This article from Wired is about an app called PhotoMath that was released this week. The app takes a picture as input, and then finds the math, solves it and shows it’s work. Pretty cool!
via Wired
Think you could code an app to do your homework for you? Have any advice for young people about to start their careers? Let us know in the comments or by tweeting to us @codehs!
That’s all for this week! Thanks for tuning in.
