29-06-2016
A group of 27 students from Escola Secundária do Monte da Caparica have visited the Department on June 22, under the FCT-NOVA initiative “Vem Ver”.
The activity proposed to these students was “Make a Flappy game” from “The Hour of Code”.
During this activity, based on the game “Flappy Birds”, the students may learn the basic concepts of programming applying this concepts on their own custom version of this computer game. From DI we had the participation of Carla Ferreira and João Leitão, professors from the Department of Informatics. “The Hour of Code” is a challenging activity for people of all ages, consisting in a one-hour problem-solving and programming with a tutorial about the basic concepts of programming and computing.