Coding and algorithmic thinking are important life skills in the increasingly digital world we live in. Many education curricula have been updated ensure that children are digitally literate, equipped to participate in a digital economy, able to develop their own technology ideas, and be better informed consumers and citizens.
Kids Coding 1
A Course For Young And New Coders
This course was developed in response to demand from teachers and parents for a child-friendly course that:
● engages students visually
● avoids complicated technology setup
● teaches programming and computer science concepts.
They found that many teaching resources were not designed with young or non-technical students in mind. Long passages of prose, technical jargon, over-complicated examples and unexplained code, put up barriers that many students couldn’t get over. This course is specifically designed to be accessible to young learners, with language carefully chosen to maximize understanding.
The course projects are kept short, with lots of illustrations, and planned breakpoints for exploring and playing. As students progress through the course, they will learn about, and gain experience with, programming and computer science concepts that are applicable to many other programming languages they might learn in future
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Getting Set up
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First Step, Level 1
This course consists of a progression of short projects. Each project builds on the knowledge and experience developed in previous projects. Each project starts by introducing a new idea, and quickly gets students coding. At regular points in each project students are encouraged to experiment with the ideas being developed.
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First Shapes
What We’ll Do?
In this project we’re going to:
● create simple shapes - circles and squares
● use colours to fill those shapes
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Coordinates & Size
What We’ll Do
In this project we’re going to:
● use coordinates to put shapes on a canvas
● learn how to choose the size of a shape
