The Tablet February 8, 2021
BUSHWICK In today’s digital age, young people are becoming more exposed to the behind-the-scenes of technology, including learning how to write code. At St. Brigid-St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Academy in Bushwick, junior high students are doing just that since September 2020 with their math and science teacher Jose Martinez.
Seventh-grader Eli Perez, for example, imagined, drew, designed, and self-coded four different games including a Christmas-themed game, in which the player has to rescue presents from the Grinch, and a maze program that tasks the player to find his/her way out before the clock runs out. The code she wrote is public, allowing other interested students to learn and study how those programs were written.