The phenomenal Flappy Bird might have been shot down by its own creator but it lives on as inspiration for aspiring coders and mobile application designers. Non-profit organization Code.org hopes to ...
Code.org is putting the incredible popularity of Flappy Bird to good use. It just released a new initiative to help young people (or whoever, really) learn how to code by building their own customized ...
The lesson takes the form of a puzzle that goes through the actual game mechanics of Flappy Bird step-by-step, from flapping the bird’s wings each time you click your mouse, to deciding what happens ...
The Flappy Bird phenomenon may inspire the next generation of coders. That’s what one computer-science group is counting on. The technology nonprofit Code.org, which works toward getting kids into ...
To mark its one-year anniversary, Code.org, the nonprofit that has created free lessons to get kids from K-12 to write computer code, has released a new drag-and-drop tutorial that lets anyone build a ...
At the intersection of awesome and banal, there’s this: Code.org, a terrific site that helps kids learn coding from an early age, has a fun 8-step “puzzle” that lets kids program their own custom ...
Sometimes, if you build up your courage and spread your wings…. you find out that your wings are stubby and don’t work very well and you fall, crashing, to the ground. That is the experience of many ...