Weekend Computer Workshops

Eli Whitney Museum

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The Eli Whitney Museum is offering workshops for young programmers. First timers will enjoy learning logic with popular game characters through Code.org's new beginners' courses. Or develop your skills with Scratch, MIT's drag-and-drop language which gives you the freedom to create your own games and animations.

If you have questions about your child's eligibility for any class, please call the Museum: 203.777.1833.

If you try to register and the link is no longer available for a particular class, please call the Museum to be put on a waiting list.

Code.org (Beginning or Continuing Workshop)

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Code.org has expanded their "Hour of Code" lessons with new courses. Learn coding concepts by using drag-and-drop logic blocks to guide popular characters through a series of challenging puzzles. You will help characters from "Angry Birds", "Plants vs. Zombies," "Flappy Bird" and Disney's "Frozen" to draw pictures, collect flowers, farm fields, and navigate mazes.

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Code Combat (Advanced Workshop) Winter 2015

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Code Combat is an online game that teaches “grown up” typed programming languages like Python through challenging puzzles. Forge through dungeons and dark forests, battling goblins and wizards. New concepts are introduced as you go by finding “gear” that expands your hero’s program. When you complete the course, play continues as you compete in “code battles,” pitting your hero’s combat programs against other kids’.

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Blender Weekend Workshop Winter 2015

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Learn Blender, a professional, open source 3D graphics software program. Blender is used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications, and video games.

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