Programming LEGO EV3 in Microsoft MakeCode

Jobs with Computer Science are very popular and requested in almost all companies. Companies cannot fill these positions, because there are not many IT professionals. The solution could be to motivate students on all levels of education to learn Computer Science, especially programming. There are many educational aids, which could be used for showing students, that programming is not so hard, as they think. The contribution describes our experience with using the online environment Microsoft MakeCode and the most popular educational robot Lego Mindstorms EV3 in an extracurricular activity for primary school children at Matej Bel University, Slovakia. In this paper, we present environment MakeCode and examples of tasks, which we are using for teaching programming in this environment.