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The majority of the children come from Hamburg and its near environs, but Kiron, from Lienen, nearly 300 kilometres away in North Rhine-Westphalia, is also there. Together with his Dad, Benjamin Kepp, he has travelled to the Elbe region over the weekend – and the duo of father and son are even spending the night in a hotel so they can attend the Hacker School. “Kiron is mad about computers and wants to learn more. And I simply hope that he has a great time here”, says Benjamin Kepp. Kiron is in the Raspberry-Pi course and is learning how much the mini computer has to offer. Benjamin Kepp would have enough time to explore the Hanseatic City of Hamburg itself, but instead, he stays at the school and assists with the Minecraft seminar, as teacher Benedikt Stemmildt would otherwise have to tackle this most popular of all the courses on his own. But instead of hunting zombies and creating new worlds, the children are learning what is behind the popular game. “Minecraft was developed in Java, a demanding high-level language for professional software development”, explains Ollmann. And now children create plug-ins to make their game characters jump higher and have zombies ride on cows. And of course the kids can take their own software extensions home and try them out for themselves on their tablet, PC or smartphone.
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