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Camper Interactive Fiction Stories
Check out the weird, wonderful interactive stories designed and written by our very own Zero Day Campers.
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Interactive Fiction
Parser Based IF Choice/Variable Based IF
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We Have a Home!
Zero Day Camp is happy to announce the location of our new store front located at: 820 Washington Avenue (between St. John’s Place and Lincoln Place) Brooklyn, NY 11238 Come on out and celebrate with us! We will be hosting an open house and movie night on Friday, July 21st. Doors open at 6 pm…
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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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Spring 2017 Kickoff
We are happy to kick off another session of Zero Day Camp at PS 9. This session we will continue breaking up into smaller groups and pursuing student interests. Check out some of the exciting projects we are up to! JavaScript Mod Campers are learning how to script their own mods using the JavaScript language and…
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The Microbits Come to PS 93
Zero Day Camp is happy to collaborate with PS 93 in Bed-Sty Brooklyn to present a 5 week after school CS introduction program using the Micro:bit. Physical computing is a great way to engage young learners and being to understand how computers and code can affect the world around them. The Micro:bit is a small…
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Zero Day Camp and The Campus in Brownsville
For almost a year now Zero Day Camp’s directors have been working with New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton’s office to contribute to the launch of “The Campus” technology and wellness hub centered in the public housing and community schools of Brownsville, Brooklyn. We are excited about The Campus, which has brought together key community…
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Tech2Learn: Bringing Technology Home
Access to hardware and internet are some of the more basic building blocks to developing CS skills. With these tools in hand, students can connect to experts and limitless resources. Many homes in our communities however, still do not have access to a computer or internet. Zero Day Camp is hoping to help close this…
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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.