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Hour of Code: Bill Gates explains If statements

Video Hour of Code: Bill Gates explains If statements

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The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft introduces the If statement. He explains that the If statement is a fundamental concept in computer programming. By demonstrating the use of the If block, he programs the movement of a zombie character along a path. This is the fourth of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial.   To try your hand at coding visit learn.code.org 

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Topics Decision making Design Problem solving Computers Computer programming Iteration Algorithms Branching Computational thinking Programming languages Visual programming
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