All these examples have been created by students using TouchDevelop. If you would like us to showcase your own #Minecraft pixel artwork, visit our blog page to submit your entry. Disclaimer: Due to the high number of submissions, we cannot always guarantee to showcase your artwork.

Instructions: Click on run to launch the pixel art. (See screenshot below)

Instructions: How to create your own #Minecraft inspired pixel artwork:

1. Click on the link below and follow the step-by-step tutorial.

• Step-by-step pixel art tutorial

2. When you have finished the tutorial, click on the link below to load the pixel art template and have a go at creating your own #Minecraft inspired pixel artwork.

• Pixel Art Template

As you are probably aware, it's been a while since my last update however, I've been working very hard behind the scenes to bring you more touchdevelop related resources! So, what's New? 

1. New Scheme of Work - Full (15 week) Scheme of Work mapped to the new Computing curriculum in England 
2. New one off lessons, also mapped to the new Computing curriculum
3. All new challenges (including Chat-bot and Magic 8-Ball challenge)
4. More of your great work in the student showcase section
5. Project ideas. Not sure what create for your next app in TouchDevelop? Then check out some of these project  suggestions.

Don't forget to submit your UK Hour of Code apps. We will showcase our favourites!  Click here to submit your app.

Try out these tutorials created to support the UK hour of code. These easy to use step-by-step tutorials are designed to introduce students and teachers to coding and range from beginner (no programming experience) to advanced. (Click here)

Hungry for more? 

If these tutorials have wet your appetite and you want to learn more! Why not sign up for UK hour of code (running between the 3rd and 9th March 2014). Through fun tutorials and lesson plans, Hour of code plans to be the biggest ever national initiative to get students, teachers and parents learning to code in just sixty minutes. Hour of Code has already been extremely successful in the United States with more than 15 million participants. Register for the UK hour of code here: http://uk.code.org

Today is the final day for you to submit your 8-bit festive art. Click here to vote for your favourite! 
The winner will feature as the official TouchDevelop Challenge Christmas Card 2013. Good Luck!

Check out these 8-bit festive pixel images created by students using TouchDevelop for Hour of Code week. Click here.

Check out these great examples of "Pixel Art" created by students using TouchDevelop: Pixel Art Gallery

The kind people over at TouchDevelop have recently introduced a new interactive tutorial engine which allows you to create step-by-step tutorials. Check out some of our step-by-step tutorials in our all new tutorials section.

You can now access some of the TouchDevelop Challenge tutorials directly in TouchDevelop using the "in editor" docs. Click here to find out more.

Check out these great examples of student's work using TouchDevelop