Love of Minecraft helps students understand coding and other top stories.

• Love of Minecraft helps students understand coding

  

  TOOWOOMBA'S talented youngsters are getting a better understanding of the language of coding and software, with a series of free classes held this week.Volunteer mentors are working with students, using their love of Star Wars or Minecraft, to develop games or short animations.Using a laptop, Alexander James, 7, and Laurie Dougherty spent the first session perfecting movement commands for robots.Laurie said he wanted to work in video game programming in the future.Ethan Callaghan, 13, said as a ..

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