Code Monster from Crunchzilla <h2>Code Monster gets kids excited about programming. It is a combination of a game and tutorial where kids experiment with learning to code. <p> Code Monster use Javascript. Please enable Javascript if you want the play with the Code Monster. Otherwise, Code Monster will not be able to play with you. </p><p></h2> I'm Code Monster! Getting Started Lesson 1 BACK How to Play | Lesson Sections | About | FAQ | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact | © 2015 How to Play Code Monster teaches kids and adults a little about Javascript programming! It's easy to play. Click on the Reset button if you really mess up your code and want to start over on a lesson. Code Monster saves what lesson you are on, so feel free to stop at any time and come back later. Have fun! About Code Monster from Crunchzilla is an interactive tutorial for kids that focuses on action. Projects start with simple boxes and colors, rapidly progressing into exciting experiments with simple animation and fractals. Sure! Terms of Use Oh my.
girldevelopit/gdi-intro-web-concepts Hopscotch, An iPad App That Helps Kids Learn To Code, Raises $1.2M There are lots of systems clamouring to help educate the next generation of coders. One of them, New York-based startup Hopscotch, closed a $1.2 million seed funding round last August which it’s just announcing today, in conjunction with the release of v2.0 of its app. The seed funding came from Resolute Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Kapor Capital and other unnamed investors, and was used to expand the team, launch the community and build version 2 of the app, says co-founder Jocelyn Leavitt. Hopscotch’s special sauce is to be mobile device focused. Its graphical programming language has been specifically designed for use on the iPad. “Hopscotch works by dragging and dropping colorful blocks of code to build routines,” explains Leavitt. “Hopscotch is an object oriented programming language, but it is visual. After a year on the app store, Hopscotch said its app has been used to create more than 1.5 million projects, compiling more than 57 million blocks of code.
These Tween Girls Created An Android App For The Blind A group of six grade school girls in Los Fresnos, Texas took it upon themselves to solve a problem for blind kids. They built an app for them. The app, Hello Navi, first came from the imagination of a particular girl in the group, Grecia Cano. The girls 6th grade science teacher, Maggie Bolado was inspired to get the girls involved in building the app after seeing a tweet from the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The challenge invited the interest of over 1200 applicants, but it turns out navigation for the blind was a winning idea. The girls didn’t have any coding experience themselves so a group of programmers from the MIT Media Lab helped the girls put the app together. One of the girls, Sandra Baquero, said she was more encouraged now to get into coding. Hello Navi unnamed-4 unnamed-2 unnamed-3 unnamed-5 The app was made in Java and should be available in Google Play on June 1st.
Introducing Tynker’s Tutorial Designer It’s now easier than ever to teach programming with our new Tutorial Designer that allows anyone (even students) to design a lesson for others to follow. Just start with a project you’ve already created, and you can easily add step-by-step instructions to show someone how to build your project. Review these sample tutorials Sign in to Tynker, and you can take a look at sample tutorials created using the Tutorial Designer: Fun with Spirographs – This tutorial explains how to build Spirograph designs with code. (Don’t have a Tynker account? Tailor lessons to your students! You can easily add videos, pictures, links, voiceover and step-by-step user actions, to bring your lesson to life and give your students everything they need, accessible from a single convenient place. Tutorials are saved with the project and the When your students open the project, they see the yellow tutorial tab on the left and will find it easy to follow instructions or review your lesson notes.
GoldieBlox and the Movie Machine This Is Why Students Need to Learn Coding January, 2015 Coding is becoming one of the essential literacies in the 21st century education. There is a growing demand now for teaching students how to code. In his wonderful TED talk titled "Let's teach kids to code", Scientist Mitch Resnick made this beautiful analogy : When kids learn to code , it enables them to learn many other things, opens up many new opportunities for learning. It's useful to make an analogy to reading and writing, when you learn to read and write it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things, when you learn to read you can then read to learn, which is the same thing with coding, if you learn to code you can code to learn. To further highlight the importance of teaching kids coding skills, I am sharing with you this beautiful visual titled" Rise of Coding". Source: Online College.
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