Live to old age and learn old age, learning is the problem of a person's life. Since Hongmeng was born and developed, many developers or Xiaobai have come into contact with Hongmeng and began to explore this new world. But I never imagined that even elementary school students are now joining the world of Hongmeng! At the Huawei Developer Conference, a group of primary school students created their own programming at the "Smart Life Imagineer" programming competition.
"I made a small game, I can connect the lights, TV, and speakers, and I can control the TV in the living room from my own room. This is so fun."
No, Huawei officially launched PetalKidsCode. With just a computer, children can control the smart devices around them through their own programs on the Petal Children's Programming Platform. At the same time, Petal Children's Programming also represents that the HarmonyOS ecosystem has more application scenarios.
Whether the children want to switch the humidifier on and off, let the smart speaker switch songs on time, or even set the color changing mode of the colorful light strip, they can freely use their imagination to solve these problems and experience the fun of programming.
According to the latest "2021 Children's Programming Education Industry Report", by 2025, the market size of children's programming is expected to reach 100 billion. Not only that, national policies are also supporting the development of programming education. Zhejiang, Fujian, Chongqing and other provinces and cities have issued notices to promote the popularization of programming education. Wuhan City also launched pilot activities in nearly 100 primary and secondary schools in October last year to gradually promote programming education.
Like English, children's programming is an inevitable result of the development of social technology to a certain stage. How is Huawei's Petal Children's Programming Platform different from other children's programming? What are the advantages of Huawei's children's programming platform based on the HarmonyOS ecosystem? With these questions, after in-depth communication with the relevant person in charge of Petal Children's Programming, I saw the software and hardware ecology and original intention behind Huawei's children's programming.
01. Launched the Petal Children's Programming Platform, and Huawei held the first children's programming competition
"The topic of our extra competition is the application of HMS software capabilities." When the host announced the final extra competition topic, the children in the audience began to conceive their own programming structure, constantly selecting controls, inputting parameters, debugging results, and polishing their own works. . This is the first time that Huawei has held a children's programming competition. Petal Children's Programming is a children's programming platform specially created by Huawei for young students, and it is also the designated platform for the challenge.
When they were immersed in their own programming world, some teachers and parents outside Taiwan were also paying attention to the competition. "Now is the age of information technology, our family (children) have been in contact since the third grade." A parent of a participating student said. A teacher also added, "Learning to program is not to train children to become programmers, but to cultivate children's ability to create and solve problems."
Through visual graphics programming, building block controls and other methods, Petal Children's Programming can not only allow children to make various animations, but also connect with smart devices at home through the HarmonyOS system to create a new robot vacuum cleaner at home. movement path.
Not only that, Petal Children's programming can also access third-party software and hardware. It can access third-party hardware such as drones, and control the take-off, flip and other functions of the drone through programming.
02. Children's programming platform + smart devices, so that children can also play the HarmonyOS ecosystem?
Petal children's programming platform mainly faces children's groups, and at the same time drives more parents and teachers to participate in programming education and teaching.
How to let children understand what programming is and provide them with an application environment where "everything is programmable". Petal Children's Programming allows children to play programming through Huawei's terminal cloud service and HarmonyOS "1+8+N" ecosystem.
1. Equipped with HarmonyOS ecosystem, it can connect 17 smart devices
Since children's programming entered the domestic market in 2012, with more and more players joining, the industry competition is also intensifying. Compared with other programming platforms and software, the biggest difference of Petal Children's Programming is the interaction with the device.
Generally speaking, the children's programming platform will be divided into three areas, the stage area, the script area and the control area. The user selects the building block program control in the control area, puts it into the script area for coding, and then checks the running effect in the stage area.
Different from the conventional children's programming platform, the "stage" of Petal Children's programming is larger. After opening the operation page, users can graphically program each family device through the HarmonyOS device building blocks. In this way, the application of programming will have more application scenarios, no longer limited to the surface of the screen, but also allow children to better understand what programming is.
For example, after the children wrote a 10-second program to cut songs in the components of the smart speaker, when they saw their smart speakers switch songs according to the programming, they could really feel the fun of creating programming. At present, Petal Children's programming can interact with various smart hardware in the HarmonyOS ecosystem, and users can see the effect of programming on 17 smart hardware such as smart speakers, smart bedside lamps, and human sensors in real time.
In the Petal Children's Programming community, we can see many children's works, some of which are playing Happy Birthday on the stereo at ten o'clock, some have created a random ordering program, and even some children have built their own game world.
Really, even elementary school students have started to learn Hongmeng, how much do you have to leave behind? I'm starting to think about teaching my kids by myself. Too curly everyone!
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Original: Lao Wang丨[Public Account: Hongmeng Developer Laowang] Huawei Certified Instructor / Tencent Certified Instructor / Hongmeng Development Pioneer