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Imagining other uses for robotics technology

It's cool to program robots to play football, but there are many more useful applications for programming robots to react to what they are seeing. What are some of the examples David McKinnon gives? Can you think of some more examples?

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Telling robots what to do

If you were programming a robot to play a competitive game of soccer, what are some of the things you would consider? Think about some of the most basic functions of a robot, like walking, stopping and turning, to more complicated functions like recognising objects and reacting to them in a specific way.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding a Sprite

So, you have your new project in Scratch - now it's time to add a Sprite!

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How to Use Scratch: Making Sprites interactive

Make your Sprite jump, move, say something or change costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Sounds

Record and add your own background sound to your project or choose the sounds from the library like a rattle, a ripple or a pop!

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BTN: Computer code

Are you interested in finding out about computer coding? Watch this clip to see why some famous faces are promoting the benefits of learning computer programming. See how some young students are learning to code and finding that it's not that hard after all!

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Learning about computer languages

What happens when you type a web address or url into your computer and press enter? Watch this clip to find out! Computers and servers talk to each other in a language called HTTP. What are the messages they send and recieve mostly about? HTML is another language, one that tells a web browser how to make a web page look. ...

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Unplugged Activity: Graph Paper Programming

This video introduces one of code.org's unplugged activities and provides an introduction to programming without the use of computers. One student takes on the role of "programmer", drawing arrows and scribbles on paper to guide the other student to re-create a particular picture. For more information on the activities ...

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How to Use Scratch: Changing Colours of objects in Scratch

Make the images and objects in your project change colour when they are clicked!

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How to Use Scratch: Changing the costume of your Sprite

Make your Sprite look its best by learning how to change its costume.

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Hour of Code: Chris Bosh teaches Repeat Until statements

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, basketball star Chris Bosh explains the difference between a Repeat Until command and a Repeat Loop command. This is the third of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. ...

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Why every day should be Hour of Code day

Doncaster Gardens Primary School students participating in Hour of Code tell us what they love about learning coding and programming, and why they think it's important to learn for their futures. Their teacher, Carey Baldwin, offers some great starting points for both teachers and students to improve their skills – at any ...

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Ever seen robots play sumo?

Watch this clip to see sumo robots in action! UNSW student and Robogals member Jonathan Loong explains how the game works. How do the robots know when to turn around and move back into the ring?

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Hour of Code: Saloni on the If/Else block

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Saloni explains what an If/Else statement is and looks at how If/Else blocks can be used to program the movement of a zombie character. This is the fifth of seven clips in ...

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Hour of Code: Saloni teaches If/Else statements with Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Saloni explains what an If/Else statement is. With the help of Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age, she goes on to demonstrate how If/Else blocks can be used to program characters' ...

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How to Use Scratch: Deleting the Cat Sprite

A computer character is called a 'sprite'. Can you delete the cat sprite from your Scratch card?

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How to Use Scratch: Imagining your interactive Holiday Card

Snowmen? Spooky Halloween ghosts? The Easter bilby? What images come to mind when you think of Holidays? Get some ideas for your Scratch Holiday Card

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How to Use Scratch: Adding sounds to your Scratch project

There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra 'oomph' by adding sounds.

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Hour of Code: Mark Zuckerberg teaches Repeat Loops

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this instructional video, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg explains what a Repeat Loop is and how to use the repeat block. This is the second of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. To ...

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Hour of Code: Introduction

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.  This video explains what computer science is and what a computer programmer does. This is the first of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. To try your hand at coding visit learn.code.org