Returning to Coding

After a hiatus from coding, due largely to my absence from the Numeracy classroom, our journey has begun again with a range of experiences on the code.org Hour of Code page.

The students were given the choice of exploring the Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code or completing the Classic Maze with Angry Birds.

Some worked on their iPad ....

... some worked on their computer ...

 ... all worked independently at their own pace

They were all focussed and each student achieved at least one of the tutorials. Not a bad effort for the last lesson on a Friday!

At least one student ventured beyond code.org and started to explore the Khan Academy Hour of Drawing with Code tutorial, which is considerably more of a challenge.

The students are excited to be coding again ... which is really pleasing. They want to explore the iPad App Floors by Pixel Press. They've had a bit of a play with it, whilst I was absent from teaching them, so I've agreed to look at developing a project for them to complete during Term 3.

In the meantime, we've got a few more tutorials on the code.org website that we can explore and a couple of interesting coding Apps I've found on the App Store:

Javvy: Learn how to code in Java

Swifty: Learn how to code in Swift