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FOSDEM PWA

Make a controller for your game

UD6.203 | Day 2 | 14:15 - 15:45 | Speakers: Bernat Romagosa

Make a controller for your game
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Stream opens at 14:15 (Europe/Brussels)

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Abstract

In this workshop you'll create a little game that works in your computer, plus a physical controller -like the ones in gaming consoles- that you'll use to control the game you've made.

To program the video game and the controller we are going to use two different blocks-based programming languages: Snap! and MicroBlocks.

Snap! is a live, blocks-based language that delves into advanced programming concepts and is suitable for a rigorous introduction to computer science. MicroBlocks is also a live blocks-based programming language that runs on microcontrollers and is ideal to get started with electronics and physical computing.

Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.

Speakers

Bernat Romagosa

Bernat Romagosa is a software engineer at SAP, where he contributes to the Snap! and MicroBlocks programming languages. He's been mixing the physical and real worlds together since he started the Snap4Arduino project at the Citilab (Barcelona) in 2013.

His passion for computing revolves around live programming systems and pedagogy. One of his other passions is music, and when the sun sets he mixes the two by live coding synthesizers with MicroBlocks in Barcelona whenever he has the chance.

No matter what, Smalltalk will forever be his favorite language.

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