Events in room UD6.205

In this hands on workshop, you will use MIT App Inventor to build two applications for your Android or iOS device. Those new to MIT App Inventor can have a simple first app up and running in less than 30 minutes. And what's more, our blocks-based tool facilitates the creation of complex, high-impact apps in significantly less time than traditional programming environments. The first app you create will be a cat you can pet to make meow. The second app will allow you to draw your own pictures via touch. Participants must bring both a laptop and a mobile device (phones and tablets are both good, running Android 4.0+ or iOS 12+).

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

MicroStudio is a game engine aimed at beginners, based on code yet very accessible, forgiving, and providing immediate feedback on everything you do. MicroStudio includes a pixel-art sprite editor and a map editor. Accessible online with a simple web browser, it allows multiple users to work live on the same project. It also includes many interactive tutorials and documentation.

In this workshop, we will learn how to draw shapes and sprites on screen, how to create animations, and how to check for player input. Finally, we will all create a simple game that we can even run on our smartphones. Once back home, participants can continue working on their project. For this session and later use, participants can use a simple guest (anonymous) account and do not have to create a full microStudio account. They can later convert the guest account to a full account if they want.

microStudio is a free and open-source project (MIT license). Available at: https://microstudio.dev Get the source code and run your own instance: https://github.com/pmgl/microstudio Also available as a standalone, offline version for Linux, macOS, Windows and Raspberry PI: https://microstudio.itch.io/microstudio

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

The free open-world game Luanti offers a variety of possibilities to get creative and play together. Luanti is a framework that allows everyone to build their own voxel game – a world made out of blocks which can be placed and removed, items and tools that can be crafted and many more things to discover.

Get to know Luanti and learn to develop your own modification that adds a new block to the game. Additionally, you can create a custom crafting recipe and apply effects to your block like making it glow.

Depending on how much time we have, we can explore further topics like playing together in the same world or programming chat commands.

Please bring your own computer with Luanti installed.

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

In this hands-on Scratch workshop, participants will design and build their own interactive mini-game or story world. Using simple blocks, characters, sounds and animations, they will learn how to make things move, react and come alive on screen.

The workshop starts with a short guided introduction where everyone creates a basic interactive scene together. After that, participants are free to customize and expand their project: adding characters, inventing challenges, creating stories, or designing playful interactions. Creativity is central there is no “right” result.

The workshop is suitable for beginners as well as participants with some Scratch experience. Younger participants can focus on simple interactions and animations, while older or more experienced ones can experiment with variables, scoring systems or more complex logic.

By the end of the session, everyone will have a working Scratch project they can continue at home. The goal is to make coding feel fun, accessible and empowering, and to show that programming is a creative tool for everyone.

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

Create your own art like Mondriaan or Picasso with coding in p5.js. An online scripting site where you can put in circle's, square's, lines etc in different colours to create a pattern. You will start off with some examples so you know how this scripting coding works. Then you can make your own.

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

GCompris is an educational software with more than 100 educational activities, some of which are game oriented. Here you will hear some of the history as well as the prevalence of the application. Come and discover GCompris, and what it has to offer. This workshop is most suitable for children up to age 10. Having GCompris installed before the workshop is recommended. You can use either a mobile phone or a computer.

https://gcompris.net/

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

Hedy is a programming language that aims to teach textual programming to kids. Hedy's unique approach involves gradual changes in the syntax of the programming language, so students are not overloaded with information right away. This devroom is aimed at students from 9 to 12 years old, but anyone with a desire to start learning programming (or teaching) with text based language is welcome. You'll need your own laptop (no installs needed, Hedy is webbased) and reading- and basic typing skills (or someone to help you read and type). No prior programming experience is needed. When you have finished all 16 levels of Hedy, you know the basics of Python.

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

MIT App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone – even children – to build fully functional apps for Android phones, iPhones, and Android/iOS tablets. Those new to MIT App Inventor can have a simple first app up and running in less than 30 minutes. In this workshop, participants will train their own convolutional neural network (CNN) to play the game peek-a-boo. We will then play with the model on tablets/phones using an app built with MIT App Inventor.

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

Sonic Pi is a free code-based music creation and performance tool. It is Powerful for professional musicians and DJs, Expressive for composition and performance. It is also accessible for blind and partially sighted people and is simple for computing and music lessons. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical & Jazz to Hip hop & EDM. Free for everyone with a friendly tutorial. https://sonic-pi.net/

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