Terminal Two Games Featured in This Year’s Hour of Code

Code.org is a nonprofit organization aiming to support and encourage young people around the world to learn to code. Endless supports Code.org as it aims to serve more students through its annual Hour of Code global initiative.

You can read a conversation with Min Yoo, Director of Marketing and Development at Code.org here.

Hour of Code, a global movement that has introduced tens of millions of students worldwide to computer science and coding education, kicked off today featuring hundreds of self-guided coding and computer science games for kids in all grades. This year over 60,000 Hour of Code events have been registered in 180+ countries to engage students in 45 languages.

The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community effort.

Terminal Two has always been focused on making coding education engaging, exciting and fun, and ten Terminal Two games are featured in this year’s Hour of Code. Some of them, like The Passage, are platform based adventures that introduce beginners to the basics of JavaScript as they escape unknown dangers in an alien world. In Aqueducts, kids act as the hero of their village as they utilize basic coding fundamentals to bring water back to town. The puzzles get more complex as they become more challenging, and after students finish the hour of gameplay and gain coding confidence, they can design their own levels to share with other kids.

For kids more comfortable with coding, Terminal Two offers adventure games like White House, where students use CSS and learn color hex codes to restore color to a blank world. For a different kind of challenge, they can try Functional Freestyle and use real code to design a music video by placing and controlling dancers, scenery, and more.

Ten Terminal Two Games are featured in this year’s Hour of Code

This year especially, when students and teachers are more dependent on technology for education, engagement in computer science has become more relevant than ever. Terminal Two games and Hour of Code offer exciting ways for kids to learn these skills and highlight the importance of a diverse, capable generation of computer scientists. With an estimated 15% of the world’s students participating this year, it is clear that today’s students are poised to become confident, talented programmers at the forefront of the STEM fields.

You can find Terminal Two’s featured games by going to https://hourofcode.com/us/learn and selecting “Terminal Two, Endless” under the “Created By” dropdown.