![]() ![]() They have also tried other programming-related puzzles and games from, including Lightbot, Tynker, and Code With Anna And Elsa. The participants experienced fixing a game called Jetpack Jumper on TouchDevelop and learned basic programming concepts from the activity. Microsoft Student Partner Reynard Natividad from Lorma Colleges for spearheads the Hour of Code event in La Unionĭecember 09, 2014, Grade 9 and Fourth Year High School Students of San Sebastian College-Recoletos Manila participated in the global annual Hour of Code with the Microsoft Student Partners of FEU Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the MSPs of SSC- R. The students had a great time in creating their first app also u sing TouchDevelop. Central Luzon Colleges Hour of Code Spearheaded by Mike Gragasin, Microsoft Student Partner and Junior MSPs from Central Luzon State UniversityĪlso on the same day, more than 150 high school students of Lorma Colleges Special Science High School have participated in the Hour of Code in San Juan, La Union. You can also share scripts with other people by publishing them to the TouchDevelop script bazaar, or by submitting them as an app to the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, publish scripts. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. ![]() You do not need a separate PC or keyboard. In the TouchDevelop programming enviro nment you write scripts by tapping on the screen. Let’s look back as we bring you some of the photographs taken from the recently concluded Hour of Code activities spearheaded by our Microsoft Student Partners.ĭecember 8, 2014, The Grade 9 students of Central Luzon State University – University Science High School participated in the Hour of Code where they created their first app using TouchDevelop. ![]() Some events were rescheduled due to impending Typhoon Hagupit, but that didn’t stop the teams from accomplishing their goal of teaching K-12 students and others from non-tech colleges how to code. In the celebration of the 2014 Computer Science Education Week (December 8-14), though Hour of Code is clearly not a competition, we’re proud to report that the Philippines is one of the top countries in the Hour of Code Global Leaderboards for having one of the highest participation rates in Hour of Code activities, with a total of 112 events as of today, January 11, 2015. So it makes sense why people like President Barack Obama, celebrities Shakira, Ashton Kutcher, Angela Bassett, athletes like Chris Bosh, Warren Sapp and Dwight Howard, along with tech leaders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are getting behind to promote the Hour of Code: a way for students to get a taste of programming in just an hour-long lesson. As of this moment, 92,800,320 students have done the Hour of Code and written 4,587,866,151 lines of code.īased on the current statistics, there’s no doubt that the shortage of engineers is a problem not only in the U.S., but also in different parts of the globe, and especially for companies struggling to hire those versed in science and math. One-hour tutorials are available in over 30 languages. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.
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