We all know about the three Rs – reading, writing and arithmetic. Well, in the 21st century there is a new kind of literacy we all need to get to grips with: computer coding.
Last week nearly 1,500 of you took up The Sunday Times’s challenge to create an app; this week we give you the final steps.
Coding is a surprising mixture of extreme attention to detail and creativity. Today we hope you will discover that with your Snap That! game. Yes, you need to follow the instructions carefully to get the program to work, but the Playto Editor, powered by Decoded, makes the coding experience easier. What pictures you use for the game is entirely up to you. We’ve created versions with cats, dogs, cakes and cars, but why not use your favourite photographs? It’s your app, so you choose.
That’s the point of this — to create a nation driving technology, rather than being passive users of it. When we code we stand on the shoulders of giants: we don’t have to reinvent a geolocator, or one of those clever drop-down calendars; we can just import the best way of doing it by copying and pasting.
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The Sunday Times wants to empower you in technology. By completing this two-part series, you will join the 1% of the world that understands the language of the future. That has to be worth a bit of effort..