In this resource, the class program a card robot face to show different emotions one after another.

This is a very simple way to introduce the idea of programs and sequences of instructions as well as computational thinking ideas like algorithmic thinking and decomposition. It can also lead to ideas about abstraction.

Learn about:

• algorithmic thinking
• programming
• decomposition
• sequences of instructions
• computational thinking
• abstraction

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