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Hour of Code: Build Your Robot World in Java

Want to learn how to code? Get hands-on fun and immersive experience driving a simulated robot while mastering Java basics, using variables, methods, loops, and random numbers.

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Want to learn how to code? Get hands-on fun and immersive experience driving a simulated robot while mastering Java basics, using variables, methods, loops, and random numbers.

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Course Overview

Learn the basics of coding while driving a simulated robot through a maze. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to use variables, use Java commands called methods, generate random numbers, and use coding constructs, loops, to instruct the computer to solve repetitive tasks.

Course Content

Robots and code

Building the labyrinth: variables and objects

Wanderer: random numbers

Loopy wanderer: loops

Bonus challenge: robot ecosystem

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