(Not) Scary Coding
03 november 2025
On October 28th, we organized a truly spooky lesson in intergenerational coding with a Halloween theme!
On that day, we joined forces from two powerful (though seemingly distant) factions: the Young Explorers of the Digital World and the Experienced Experts of Life and Technology.
Seniors and children met in a setting dripping with pumpkins and cobwebs to jointly discover... the spooooky secrets of coding! Can algorithms be scary? Can loops jump out of the closet? We decided to answer these questions with the help of our small, interactive assistants – the Photon robots!
Although our Photons had a vampiric look and could emit sounds straight out of a haunted castle (ghost sounds were a hit!), it quickly became apparent that coding is not scary at all—neither for the children nor for the seniors!
What was supposed to be a "secret" turned out to be surprisingly simple and... hilarious! The children quickly mastered creating sequences to make the robot perform the "vampire dance." The seniors, under the watchful (and amused) eyes of the children, arranged the code blocks with engineer-like precision and without any tricks.
The result? Instead of screams of terror, the room was filled with genuine laughter and cries of triumph every time a line of code succeeded.
This day proved that when technology is presented in an interesting way, intergenerational barriers disappear faster than a ghost after sunrise. Coding is a superpower that anyone can master!
