Coding

= [|Hour of Code 2017-2018] =

**Hour of Code** is a campaign to show that anyone can learn the basics of coding and ** become a maker, a creator, an innovator. ** //"Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all said that students should learn how to code.////It’s a skill that not only teaches you how to work with computers,////but also teaches you how to think about solving problems with systems."//

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[|Hour of Code]- Be a maker, a creator, an innovator!

[|Star Wars - Building a Galaxy with Code] (Beta version)

[|Minecraft - Explore a Minecraft world through code]! (Beta version)

[|W3Schools] - Online web tutorials

[|BrainPoP] - fee videos about coding

[|10 Middle School Coding Projects for Beginners]

[|Mozilla Webmaker] -
 * [|Create an App] - Outfit of the Day
 * [|Hack the News] - Remix the news while learning HTML
 * [|Design a Digital Poster] - Build an online review of your favorite book or movie
 * [|Become a Private Eye] - See who's tracking you online

[|Bee A Coder] - offers beginner (learn to write code) and advanced (create your own game) opportunities

[|Khan Academy: Hour of Code] - Lots of videos and shared coding projects

[|Hour of Code 2013: Grok Learning] - Get a taste of programming in Python 3.3 a scripting language used by Google, Facebook, and Reddit.

[|Learn to Code] - Learn the basics of Computer Science with drag and drop programming.

[|Coding for Kindergartners] - nice post explaining how elements of programming support pre-readers

[|Pixel Press] - Draw your own video game

[|trinket.io] - teach anything with code

[|Scratch] - Create stories, games, and animations and share around the world.

[|Scratch Challenges] - Wesley Fryer's wiki

[|ScratchJr.] - now available as free iPad app

[|Minecraft Challenges] - Wesley Fryer wiki

[|Tynker] - Learn computer programming at home! A fun and engaging course for children in grades 4-8

[|Hopscotch] - Coding for kids: an iPad programming language. Similar to Scratch & Tynker

[|Daisy the Dinosaur] - App targets the youngest coders. Simplified version of Hopscotch. Excellent introduction to programming!

[|LEGO Mindstorms Fix the Factory] - gets pre-reading students to engage in meaningful coding challenges that develop computational thinking

[|Cargo-Bot] - a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.

[|7 Apps for Teaching Coding] - some free and some not

[|Programming for Kids] - collections of lots of resources

[|Teach Kids to Program] - a collection of resources to teach programming/coding "one game at a time"

[|Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids] - by Common Sense Media

Robotics
[|Sphero] - The app-controlled ball that does it all.

[|littleBits] - littleBits blog

[|Bee-Bot] - an exciting new robot designed for use by small children

[|Tickle App] - video demonstrating how to use the Tickle App to code Sphero