Strasbourg. A summer at Shadok: creating video games, robots, and electro hits

"How do I add a gravity variable so my character can jump?" asks Antoine, aged nine and a half. This Wednesday, July 16, he and around ten other children aged eight to ten are participating in the Shadok workshop entitled "Create your own mini-video game." "We use games to teach them the basics of programming, an important skill in this day and age," explains Quentin Boutin, the workshop's facilitator.

For their second morning of training, the children are each seated behind a computer to learn how to customize their game character. The fastest ones then tackle the backgrounds, then begin to give simple instructions to their creature, such as how to move when...

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