Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Hour of Code

Today we did our (now monthly) Hour of Code.  We had a great turnout with almost a full house which is awesome because we are going to try to turn this monthly Hour of Code activity into something more!  This is a good place to start to get kids interested in coding and also working together to share their knowledge of coding.

Right off the bat we've got kids who have never coded and others who are pretty well-versed, so we want to get them working together and create a fun atmosphere where they can look forward to getting further into coding!

Coming up soon we'll have some robotics classes that will build on what we are learning here!

For today's activity, though, we started at the beginning with Code.org's Hour of Code activities.  These simple "games" involving Angry Birds and Plants Vs. Zombies characters are not only fun, but they also teach the basics of how to code using a visual block style.



6 comments:

Matt said...

Today's class was very fun because I got to have more experience with coding. I learned the basics of Javascript coding, and I had fun doing it. I started to create a remake of Pong, but didn't have enough time.

Roaldo said...

Today was fun since i even know how to code it was still fun. As a participate of the hour of code i will be going every time. I really enjoyed this day.

Eileen said...

Today's class was a bit difficult when i was doing the hour of code. The first few levels where easy but then they go harder. Besides that today's class was fun.

Ringo said...

Dude....today was sick. It was actually easier than what I thought it was going to be. Coding rocks!!!

Armando said...

This class was very fun.I got to level 2 where there was games about. I wonder what we will do next?

Magnus said...

We did a hour of coding in PNG. I liked doing the hour of coding I had a lot of fun. I got to level 2 12.