An interactive Doja Cat music video can introduce you to programming

Girls Who Code, the nonprofit group that goals to get extra girls and ladies within the discipline of laptop science, has debuted what it calls the “first ever” codable music video. The group partnered with Doja Cat, reworking her new music video for Woman into an interactive expertise.

You can check out the expertise for your self at Dojacode.com, the place you’ll be greeted by a futuristic picture of Doja Cat that turns into pixelated as you drag your mouse over the display. On the subsequent web page, you’ll see three stars, every of which represents a distinct programming language — yellow for CSS; blue for Javascript; and pink for Python.

Once you click on the music video, the expertise begins. It performs similar to Doja Cat’s authentic music video, solely you’ll get to make choices all through, type of like a select your personal journey recreation, however with code. The timeline on the underside of the display incorporates 4 color-coded stars, displaying when the video will pause and which programming language will probably be showcased.

When the video stops, you’ll be capable to fill within the blanks apart from traces of code. For instance, the primary break enables you to change the colour of Doja Cat’s nails utilizing CSS; the colour you sort in alters the colour of Doja Cat’s nails in real-time. In one other situation, coming into the identify of a metropolis adjustments the time of day within the video, and it even stays true to that location’s present time — after I typed in “Tokyo” at round 10:00AM ET, the sky within the video turned darkish and constellations turned seen, all consistent with Tokyo’s 12:00AM native time.

At the top of the expertise, you’ll get snapshots of how every space taken care of you completed “coding” it, which the positioning then enables you to obtain or share to social media. While the DojaCode video doesn’t contain any intense quantities of programming, I nonetheless discovered it enjoyable to experiment with typing in numerous choices and seeing my adjustments immediately take impact.