Algorithm Resources for Students and Teachers. Yes, I’m being facetious. Although we have resources for k-12, if you are a budding programmer many of these books, available online, aren’t for the noob student or programmer. They are, however, available for you to refer to as you grow in your study of computer science and computational thinking! What are algorithms? Well, they are in everything you do.
Is there more than one way to solve these problems? When you start writing, the typical approach is to make it easy on yourself. As you grow and want to find better, faster ways to have computers, friends or machines, follow your instructions, learning more about algorithm design becomes more important. Please share your resources and we will continue to update this listing. Grade School: Read our blog post on computational thinking, unplugged. Middle School: High School: To be added. Adult – College: Kurt Mehlhorn and Peter Sanders.
Books - Programming in Scratch by Linda Baran. About. Who Supported ScratchJr? The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, British Telecommunications, and Adobe Systems. If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small. Platinum supporters from the ScratchJr Kickstarter campaign: Jeremy Deutsch, Kenneth Ehlert, Catherine Greenspon, Mark Loughridge, JoAnn Gantz Bendetson, and Shirley Resnick. Scratch | Geek Engineering. Scratch is about writing simple games and animations and having fun! … it's for people who've never programmed before, but really want to learn … It's like programming meets lego.
Featured Projects There are lots of really great projects over on the Scratch page. But, here are a few we've picked out: We'd really like to feature some Kiwi projects here. Want to make your own? If you fancy writing your own Scratch games, then you should go to the Scratch website and download Scratch. Scratch uses blocks and sprites. To help you get started, we've put together some simple lessons: Want to Learn More?
Check out the video tutorials and the Scratch cards over on the official Scratch page.Learn to to make an Escape the Room Game in Scratch in this tutorial.The NZACDITT has a useful introductory lesson on Scratch here.LearnScratch.org has a range of useful lesson plans here.There's another lesson plan over on Scratch.org. SNAP! (Build Your Own Blocks) Snap! - Drag and Drop Coding for Kids.