Coding for Beginners
I'm learning to code with Codecademy and I think everyone should - including children. And especially girls!
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Scratch Junior is a version of Scratch for younger children that works on the iPad.
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ScratchJr: Coding for Young Kids by Mitchel Resnick Coding is the new literacy. With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn to program their own interactive stories and games.
MIT Media Lab's ScratchJr debuts iPad app to teach kids how to code
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PicoBoard - SparkFun Electronics If you're adept with Scratch, this is a great next step. It has various sensors (light, sound etc) on the board which Scratch can read. It turns mini-programmers into inventors!
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PicoBoard - a sensor board for use with the Scratch language
So - you want to Teach your Kids Computer Programming? A useful blog post with ideas for teaching children of various ages to program.
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How to Teach your Children Programming Skills - lots of links to different programs you can download, most free, to teach your kids basic programming
How to teach kids to program - what languages and what resources to use
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Daisy the Dinosaur is another children's programming language for iPads but this is aimed at younger children. My 5 year old daughter LOVES it. Very simple but a good starting point which sets them up for Hopscotch and then Scratch.
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Hopscotch - a children's programming language on the iPad! Not as sophisticated as Scratch but a great starting point for younger children. It's free and still in Beta. My daughter loves it!
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Hopscotch ipad app teaches kids coding
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Want to know what to do with your Raspberry Pi? Go to your nearest RaspberryJam event and find out!
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Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement. But should everyone be able to program computers?
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Code Club - The Interview. Brilliant Promo video for CodeClub - a project to set up a nationwide network of after-school closing clubs.
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*This* is how you make awesome and non-patronising (and pretty hilarious) videos for kids in STEM: Code Club - The Interview
Make Your Cat Dance - Episode 1 - Program Yourself with Rosie Py
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THIS IS SO AWESOME :) Make Your Cat Dance - Episode 1 - Program Yourself with Rosie Py
New York organisation offers lessons in coding aimed at women. They operate in a number of cities round the US.
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Website that offers online and offline coding classes for young women.
8 Resources for Women Learning to Code ~ Creative Market Blog
Girls learning to code. Love it!
Girl Develop It [not in London yet ;-( ]
don't be shy develop it!
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey and Chris Meyers. Free to download, guys!!
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How to think like a Computer Scientist.... Learning Python
"How to Think Like a Computer Scientist." Free teaching text. Python-based.
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The Guardian's web developer, Chris Cross, gives the Raspberry Pi a go to see what he can do with it! Great video piece!
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The Raspberry Pi's role in the future of digital learning - video
Raspberry Pi demand running at '700 per second'
Looking forward to my first Raspberry Pi
Mmmm, delicious Raspberry Pi. I've registered "my interest" so fingers crossed! Remember, guys! "Program or be programmed!"
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Al Sweigart's theory is that nobody wants to lean how to program; they want to learn how to make programs. The eBook is free to download.
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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 2nd Edition: Al Sweigart
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python by Al Sweigart (Free PDF version)
For Lann--free ebook on game programming
Teknoteacher's audioboo describes how he teaches Python to Yr 7 children (11/12 year olds) and the resources he uses.
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Raspberry Pi is a tiny, cheap (25 quid!!) computer for children. It's a BBC Micro for the twenty-first century - something for children to tinker with and program. Could this revolutionise our relationship with computers?
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*grabby hands* stupid roommate using our address so I can't order one...
A real hackers computer for just $25 - this is awesome! Its fun like the old fashioned computers when I was young.
RPi logo
Another Revelation: $25 Computer
small computer board running several flavors of linux for $25/$35
Manchester Girl Geeks ran a Coding Workshop for beginners on 19.02.12. I like the binary biscuit display!
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Newsnight report on ICT teaching in schools and the Next Gen report calling for kids to learn coding. October 2011
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Codecademy is good but sometimes you need a little human help and some handy kitchen paper. Thanks Manchester Girl Geeks for providing a great Intro to Codecademy Event.
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I made some "Love Javascript" biscuits to inspire me to keep going through the tough times with Codecademy!
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I made some "Love Javascript" biscuits to inspire me to keep going through the tough times with Codecademy! (by Liz)
Hackasaurus. Get your X-Ray goggles and see what lies behind those web pages you've been browsing. Interesting, huh? Now see if you can TOTALLY REMIX them!!!! Yeah!
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Hackasaurus/About: "Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively shape, remix and make better."
Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser.
Participation. Getting under the hood. Talking back to the media. These are essential aspects of education today, as always. Our students demand engagement. Just like we did when we were kids. Only different. — Hackasaurus
Hackasaurus - a very cool idea for teaching basic webpage code.
Hackasaurus. This is a really fun way to of introducing HTML and getting children to write in different styles. It's particularly good for 'hacking' news websites and writing our own stories.
Atul Varma explains how Hackasaurus tools make it easy for children to mess around with the building blocks that make up the web. Web pages are no longer static images that we consume passively. We can get behind them using the X-Ray Goggles, manipulate them and make the web do what WE want.
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Hackasaurus-teaching kids to understand web coding and how it works by manipulating it. Is this where we're headed?
Mozilla Hackasaurus. Web building tools for kids.
Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world.
Hackasaurus tools make it easy for kids to remix, create and share on the web. The X-Ray Goggles allow learners to see what the web is made of, remix and change their favorite web pages, and share their creations with friends.
Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke
If your children are learning about coding using Scratch, show them this! I love the way the boys in this video are so pleased when the code works.