12 Sites and Apps for Learning to Code. When the conversation amongst educators turns to programming, Scratch is often the first resource that is mentioned. Scratch allows students to program animations, games, and videos through a visual interface. Students create their programs by dragging together blocks that represent movements and functions on their screens. The blocks snap together to help students see how the "if, then" logic of programming works. If you haven't seen Scratch before, watch the short overview in the video below. Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo. Scratch Jr. is based on the aforementioned online Scratch program. Scratch Jr for iPad and for Android uses the same drag and drop programming principles used in Scratch.
Snap! The MIT App Inventor allows students to create and publish their own Android applications. Google Blockly's interface will remind you of the MIT App Inventor and Scratch. Crunchzilla is a service that students can use to learn to write Javascript programs. Untitled. Hour of Code. Trinket. My Hour of Code 2015 Collection | doug --- off the record. OK, so I’ve been poking around adding things to a Flipboard document to support the Hour of Code 2015, December 7-13.
It’s nothing compared to the TDSB resource that I had written about earlier this week but I like to collect hoard things. I hadn’t told anyone about it; I just keep flipping things into it as I find them. The document wasn’t super secret or anything like that so I hadn’t made it private; I just hadn’t told anyone about it until now. I was quite surprised this morning when I took a look and saw the analytics. Somehow, it’s comforting to know that there are others who poke around looking for resources like this. Hour of Code 2015 Flipboard Collection The biggest and loudest participant this year has to be the Minecraft activity. I don’t think there are too many bad choices to be made here. The truly good thing about the Hour of Code is that it’s getting serious consideration in classrooms that might not otherwise have embraced the concept. Like this: Like Loading... Related. Hour of Code. Code.org. Your browser is not supported.
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