Code.org is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a nod to the late Flappy Bird game. Alongside the milestone announcement that Code.org students have written 1 billion lines of code, the site ...

In less than 10 minutes, I had made my own game that you can play right here. This Flappy Bird lesson comes right as Code.org announced that it has helped students write 1 billion lines of code.

The original Flappy Bird game, created by Dong Nguyen, is one of the biggest viral sensations. It earned the creator tens of thousands of dollars in earnings per day.

Flappy Bird — a relatively simple side-scrolling game with retro graphics — was first released in 2013, eventually becoming a viral hit and the most-downloaded app on both the iOS and Android ...