https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/teaching-kids-basic-html This course is very simple to use and would make a great addition to any club or lesson teaching programming to children. It is a sequence of small animations showing how HTML code works and uses the idea of... Continue Reading →
Recently Tynker have changed their site requiring a signup in order to play their simple Coding Games, its a real problem signing up for websites at school, there is the matter of time and of ESafety . The link below... Continue Reading →
These basic scratch projects are a perfect way to introduce young children to making their own games using Scratch. I start by getting the children confident using Blockly and then after a few hours the should be able to make their... Continue Reading →
Super Scratch Programming Adventure http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/scratch2_samplechapters.pdf Creative Computing Learning Workbook http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/files/CreativeComputing20140820_LearnerWorkbook.pdf Starting from Scratch - this starts from the beginning what's a computer? What is Software etc, then has short tutorials which could be handouts that can be filled in to... Continue Reading →
Simple Real Coding using code monkey
Very nice animated film which is 5 minutes long,showing the basics of computer programming from Brainpop. Some of this site does require a login but it has some great programming activities and https://www.brainpop.com/technology/computerscience/computerprogramming/ Here is another one from... Continue Reading →
15 Block Challenge! Today on our second computing club lesson we are going to try the 15 Block Challenge
Brain Pop is a site you have to pay for but it has a lot of free resources including this on women in science and the fabulous Ada Lovelace! https://www.brainpop.com/technology/computerscience/adalovelace/
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