Tipperary’s annual Games Fleadh aims to get teenagers interested in a career in coding, writes Karlin Lillington
The fleadh also features the Robocode competition for first year programming students, in which teams use the Java coding language to create virtual tanks to compete against each other.
“Robocode a simple language developed by IBM] is a great way to teach object-oriented, event-driven programming,” says Noonan. “Students use trigonometry, co-ordinate geometry and real events but they don’t see it like that – they see it is a strategy game.”