The hour code

Hi and welcome back to our blog! Today we wanna talk about some activities we have done last weeks in NTYCX  classes; we worked with Khan Academy. Khan Academy it's a non-Profite educational page where you can learn different topics, for example code, programing and much more.  The goal is that all have access to education easily and can learn new topics about computing.

We had to complete a project called ''The Hour Code'' that is about drawing only by codes. Sounds difficult, no? But we found it very easy because it didnt have only text, so it had videos, GIF and talking explanations that showed you how to do it. Khan Academy helps you with each Entrepreneurship!

Challenges:

The challenges are one of the interactive activities that Khan Academy offers to you. The challenges or tasks that you have to find a solution to each of them, were created to prove your knowledge and show what you have learned with these topics that Khan Academy has prepared for you.

For each step of the challenge there a video before that explains you and gives you tools so you can resolve them properly. As soon as you complete the task, the platform will give you another task until you are done with the unit and you get the necessary points.

Our first challenge was to create a "simple snowman" with codes. We had to draw a snowman by using the "ellipse" command.

Projects:

The Projects are the final challenges where you show all what you learn about that topic. It summarize all the commands that we learn and appear in every challenge we did. You have to use them to make a final project.

We had to choose to draw between a snowman, a wild animal or a Self portrait. We decided to build an animal first because it was the project that we found more interesting and creative to us.

We created a cow:

The commands that we used were the followings:

-ellipse: for the body, face, legs and blemishes of our cow and for the sun  too

-rect: for drawing the floor

-line: to create the birds and details of the cow

-fill: we used to fill the figure we wanted with the color we wanted to

-background: to color the backgroung

-noStroke: to disables the contours of the figures

Badges and energy points

 You can earn badges doing specific things in Khan Academy. This are like a prizes for watching a video, complete the project or for specific stuff.

There are Badges that are very difficult to earn and that encourage you to keep working to get it all and to become smarter in the topic that you are working.

Here we can see all the Badges that you can earn in Khan Academy

Here we left you a summarize about “The Hour Code” if you want to try it and to know something more about codes.

We suggest you to try it, it really worth it.

At the first we thought it would be boring and heavy, but with the time you wanted to keep duing it.