Teach

Explore the various teaching lessons and resources developed for common CS platforms.

  • Camper Interactive Fiction Stories

    Check out the weird, wonderful interactive stories designed and written by our very own Zero Day Campers.

  • Interactive Fiction

    Parser Based IF Choice/Variable Based IF

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    Creating an Automated House with the Microbit

    This spring session we tried something a little different and hands on. Campers were on a mission to build their dream home and automate it using the Microbit. The focus was on providing a project based and camper led experience. Working in pairs, basic programming and physical computing concepts were introduced such as creating LED…

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    Setting up ComputerCraft in Minecraft – installing Minecraft “mods” for beginners.

    I’ve been using the excellent Minecraft “mod” ComputerCraft a bit to teach some programming inside of Minecraft and wanted to make sure that anyone who wanted to set this up at home could do just that. There are a few steps and I hope I’ve gotten them all, but if I’ve missed something and/or you…

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    It’s a Mad Lib Kind of Day

    This week we worked with strings to create Thanksgiving Mad Libs. The starter project asks for a part of speech which is saved as a variable. Coders insert the variables into join strings blocks (aka concatenation). Check out the starter project here. You can also download the direction card here.